macroevolution
IPA: mækroʊɛvʌɫˈuʃʌn
noun
- Large-scale patterns or processes in the history of life, including the origins of novel organism designs, evolutionary trends, adaptive radiations and extinctions.
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Examples of "macroevolution" in Sentences
- Scale and hierarchy in macroevolution.
- See microevolution and macroevolution.
- They don't believe in macroevolution as such.
- Reject macroevolution, you reject speciation.
- A speciation event is a case of macroevolution.
- Microevolution is the same thing as macroevolution.
- Macroevolution and the modern evolutionary synthesis.
- They simply feel that macroevolution is not possible.
- Talkorigins 'evidence for macroevolution' is a red herring.
- Do not reject speciation and you do not reject macroevolution.
- So the claim that macroevolution is possible is unfalsifiable?
- This process is simultaneously microevolution and macroevolution.
- One of the questions that came up was about the claim that the term macroevolution is not a legitimate scientific term.
- More response for Mung on that quote – the evidence for common descent and macroevolution is vast, across an enormous amount of data.
- Certainly Creation Ministries International and Answers in Genesis do not use the term, and specifically recommend against using the terms macroevolution and microevolution on these grounds, so I expect they would say the same about
- The opposite position to Gould's is the one taken by Simon Conway Morris, who has argued that there is so little "accidental-ness" and historical contingency in macroevolution that we would still appear near the end of each run, regardless of what environmental changes occurred in each run.