Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
devolve (v.)
combines usually with the prepositions on and upon: All the financial responsibility will now devolve upon [on] their children. To and from also occur occasionally: Direction of the program now devolves to her in her role as vice chair. Her shrill behavior appears to devolve from the militancy of her early training. But this last combination is rare.
