Citations:extravolution

English citations of extravolution

continuance of evolution, by technological or biotechnological means

• 2015, D.J. MacLennan, Frozen to Life: A Personal Mortality Experiment:

  Extravolution ... Evolution through technology, I thought, is connected to but also separate from 'ordinary' biological evolution. The new word encapsulated my sense of a special kind of evolution over and above (and much faster than) the mundane sort.

a rolling-outwards; outward expansion

• 2002, Chris Aldrich, The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families:

  extravolution: outwards; opposite of involution (a popular, rather than a technical term)

• 1829, Charles Lamb, Final Memoirs, VIII:

  You say that shampooing is ineffectual ; but, per se, it is good, to show the introvolutions, extravolutions, of which the animal frame is capable — to show what the creature is receptible of, short of dissolution.