In its evolutionary progress it was about the equivalent to Earth during the late Devonian era.

But does evolutionary progress explain religion, art, literature or moral decision-making?

In his view, there is no contradiction between these, and he views Christianity as the natural outcome of man's evolutionary progress.

In examining the issue of evolutionary progress, the first step is to define progress.

In the essay he speculates about the nature of the Martian inhabitants and how their evolutionary progress might compare to humans.

That optimism was based on Lighthall's unbending faith in the positive nature of evolutionary progress.

He also viewed natural selection and mutation as too weak a mechanism to drive evolutionary progress.

The next chapter deals with the idea of evolutionary progress.

So far they have made only limited evolutionary progress.

It is a challenge born less out of crisis and more out of evolutionary progress".