Things that the species needed if it were to evolve beyond its present state.
Surely we have evolved beyond this kind of thinking by now.
I loved all of John's music, which was evolving beyond rock and roll.
He's had time to evolve beyond anything our imaginations can deal with.
Many believe that we will soon evolve beyond the need for bodies altogether.
In a sense, the weapons had evolved beyond the tactics, which would soon change as the war drew to a close.
Lord, I know you have evolved beyond the rest of us.
And that the world had evolved beyond acceptance of wholesale death.
An ordinary man finds himself evolving into something millions of years beyond human.
He had evolved beyond feelings, and it was driving him insane.