Now, minerals are not alive, of course, so this is not evolution in quite the same sense you'd have
Now, minerals are not alive, of course, so this is not evolution in quite the same sense you'd have in living organisms.
在本句中,否定对象不是evolution,而是状语in quite the same sense结构,这个结构是in the sense that的一种变体,表示“以...方式理解”,“...的意味”