Devolving and Retrogression
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Devolve.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- Passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form.
- synonyms: degeneration
- Returning to a former state.
- synonyms: regression, regress, reversion, retroversion
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.
- (n.) The act of retrograding or going backward; retrogradation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary