They believe that evolution generally proceeds in bursts, or not at all.
Biologists often point out that evolution does not proceed through random chance.
The mutation rate is bound to place an upper limit on the rate at which evolution can proceed.
Later the doors were discarded, and the evolution of the bookcase proceeded.
The evolution of the brain has, I think, proceeded analogously.
He was a soldier, biologist, academic, and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws.
Then it must be common knowledge that evolution proceeds at a fairly rapid pace.
Without these other great historical events, social evolution could not have proceeded.
If there are millions of habitable worlds, evolution may proceed on each of them at a different rate.
Following this, in the early Universe, the evolution of the Universe proceeded according to known high energy physics.