<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up evolution in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up evolution in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> The English noun evolution (from Latin ēvolūtiō "unfolding, unrolling") refers to any kind of accumulation of change, or gradual directional change . It is the 3,117 th most commonly used word in English . </P> <P> While the term primarily refers to biological evolution, there are various types of chemical evolution and it is also found in economics, historical linguistics, and many other technical fields where systems develop or change gradually over time, e.g. stellar evolution, cultural evolution, the evolution of an idea, metaphysical evolution, spiritual evolution, etc . </P>

Who first used the term evolution in 1852