a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
"the development of his ideas took many years"
"the evolution of Greek civilization"
"the slow development of her skill as a writer" (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
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