The phrase "largely evolved" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe a situation or process which has changed significantly over time due to natural development. For example, "The technology industry has largely evolved over the past two decades, with the widespread use of the internet and smartphones."
Indeed, instead of modifying existing boats, which is how boat design has largely evolved, Mr. Bolger liked to design on the basis of problem solving.
In modern times, mixed martial arts largely evolved from a Brazilian combat sport known as vale tudo (Portuguese for "anything goes") popularized in the 1920s.
But the use of real cricket helmets has largely evolved over the last 40 years or so.
The embodied approaches to cognition have largely evolved from ecological approaches to cognition (e.g. Gibson, 1966) which, in contrast to information processing theories, reject the notion of representations.
Despite the compelling contribution of the study of event related potentials (ERPs) and eye movements to cognitive neuroscience, these two approaches have largely evolved independently.
It is hypothesized in this study that the groundwater chemistry has largely evolved by dissolution of rhyolitic volcanic glass fragments contained within the aquifer sediments along with mixing with saline surface waters from, adjoining salinas, which are thought to be partially evaporated remnants of a paleo inland sea.
Finally, physics education research (PER) and biology education research (BER) are distinct disciplines and have largely independently evolved practices.
"Like the combustion engine, it's a technology that has largely stopped evolving, and that's not good".
Writing for a 6-to-3 majority in Atkins, Justice John Paul Stevens stressed that cruel and unusual punishment was determined largely by "evolving standards of decency," and he found evidence of a new "national consensus" against executing the mentally retarded.
Under the country's common law system, practices have evolved largely through legal precedent, rather than legislation.
The European written tradition, largely because it evolved under church auspices, de-emphasized rhythmic distinctiveness long after multipart music had superseded the monophonic plainchant.
