The opposite..

> I'm not convinced that you mean "devolved".

> Why not? It got semantically bleached (that's a technical term) from a
> highly specific sense to a general (one might say debased) one -- the
> opposite of evolution.

But evolution is not a directed process, and the opposite of evolution is stasis.

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