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An example use of evolution in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… to look at the evolution of the virus in …”
Evolution is the process of change in the heritable traits of biological organisms over successive generations.
the word evolution occurs in english on average 24.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that evolution can be often used in the following areas:
1) education, science, and technology;