Well, evolution is how something progresses and changes over time, in common language. Not always for the better, necessarily, rather how events play out and the parties of a situation adapt and change in response to each other and their circumstances.
If you unwind the adaptations to the chain of events, devolution is an apt descriptor.
Well, evolution is how something progresses and changes over time, in common language. Not always for the better, necessarily, rather how events play out and the parties of a situation adapt and change in response to each other and their circumstances.
If you unwind the adaptations to the chain of events, devolution is an apt descriptor.
This is correct. The band Devo famously adapted the word and brought it to the general public senses at large.
I've been saying society has been devolving ever since ordering my first energy dome out of the New Traditionalists LP fan club insert (mid 1980s).