evolve vs mature

evolve

verb
  • To come into being; develop. 

  • To change; transform. 

  • Of a population, to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution. 

  • To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction). 

  • To move in regular procession through a system. 

  • Of a trait, to develop within a population via biological evolution. 

  • Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution. 

  • To cause something to change or transform. 

mature

verb
  • To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion. 

  • To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe. 

  • To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature. 

  • To make (someone) mature. 

  • To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities). 

  • To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age. 

  • To reach the date when payment is due. 

adj
  • Brought to a state of complete readiness. 

  • Profound; careful. 

  • Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. 

  • Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc. 

How often have the words evolve and mature occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )