Or is it an evolutionary phase that societies go through, that European societies have gone through and left behind?

Shaw and Stone (1988) noted that companies go through evolutionary phases in the developing their database marketing systems.

It describes a whole evolutionary phase, not just one species that happens to have entered it.

By building these artificial islands and coming up out of the sea to live, the Gillies are preparing themselves for their next evolutionary phase.

The Karmal government was "a new evolutionary phase of the great Saur Revolution."

Only he or she can participate in the next evolutionary phase.

Very massive stars can also undergo a series of decreasing evolutionary phases, as they fuse increasingly heavier elements.

'My grandmother says that a normal evolutionary phase can last two hundred million years.'

Lakes formed in rock basins by retreating ice-sheets pass through several evolutionary phases.

The purer Africans, and their next evolutionary phase, the giants, would appear first in the wilds.