Growth vs. Evolution — What's the Difference?

The process of growing.

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes that are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction.

Full development; maturity.

The process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.

The gradual development of something

An increase, as in size, number, value, or strength; extension or expansion

The giving off of a gaseous product, or of heat

Something that grows or has grown

A pattern of movements or manoeuvres

An abnormal mass of tissue, such as a tumor, growing in or on a living organism.

The extraction of a root from a given quantity.

A result of growth; a product

A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form.

Expected to have or investing in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns

A result of this process; a development

An increase in size, number, value, or strength.

Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, often resulting in the development of new species. The mechanisms of evolution include natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, mutation, migration, and genetic drift.

(economics) economic growth

The historical development of a related group of organisms; phylogeny.

An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.

(Astronomy) Change in the structure, chemical composition, or dynamical properties of a celestial object or system such as a planetary system, star, or galaxy. Evolution often changes the observable or measurable characteristics of the object or system.

(biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.

A movement that is part of a set of ordered movements

(biology) Something that grows or has grown.

(Mathematics) The extraction of a root of a quantity.

(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

A change of position.

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.

(military) A manoeuvre of troops or ships.

That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.

A turning movement, especially of the body.

(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level;

(obsolete) A turned or twisted shape; an involution, a complex or intricate shape.

A progression from simpler to more complex forms;

An unfolding.

A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;

The act or process of unfolding or opening out; the progression of events in regular succession.

Vegetation that has grown;

(geometry) The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.

The gradual beginning or coming forth;

The extraction of a root from a given power.

(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

(chemistry) The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.

Something grown or growing;

Process of development.

Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.

A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.

(biology) The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.

The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, any process of growth or development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

A series of things unrolled or unfolded.

The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.

The extraction of roots; - the reverse of involution.

A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.

A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preëxist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; - opposed to epigenesis.

That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The process is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs.

A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage);

(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms