Evolution is the rule of human development, but the process itself varies greatly on different worlds. ~ The Urantia Book, 49:1.4 (560.3) [2]
The development of higher organisms from lower groupings of life is not accidental. ~ The Urantia Book, 49:1.7 (560.6) [3]
The fact of evolution is not a modern discovery; the ancients understood the slow and evolutionary character of human progress. ~ The Urantia Book, 74:8.5 (837.4) [4]
Physics and chemistry alone cannot explain how a human being evolved out of the primeval protoplasm of the early seas. ~ The Urantia Book, 65:6.8 (738.1) [5]
And now, after almost nine hundred generations of development, covering about twenty-one thousand years from the origin of the dawn mammals, the Primates suddenly gave birth to two remarkable creatures, the first true human beings. ~ The Urantia Book, 62:4:6 (707.5) [6]
Links:
[1] https://www.urantia.org/sites/default/files/images/shutterstock_1595983396-498x250.jpg
[2] https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-49-inhabited-worlds#U49_1_4
[3] https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-49-inhabited-worlds#U49_1_7
[4] https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-74-adam-and-eve#U74_8_5
[5] https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-65-overcontrol-evolution#U65_6_8
[6] https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-62-dawn-races-early-man#U62_4_6