evolve as or evolve into

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Feeling afraid evolved as an adaptive trait, an intuitive reaction that allows you to make a quick judgment about whether something is a threat when you don't have all the information, said David Ropeik, a risk perception consultant.

Source: by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz/ 2013, Chicago Tribune.


In this sentence, could I say evolved into instead of evolved as?

 

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No. It didn't evolve into an adaptive trait. It is an adaptive trait and, as such, it evolved.