macroevolution

IPA: mækroʊɛvʌɫˈuʃʌn

Large-scale patterns or processes in the history of life, including the origins of novel organism designs, evolutionary trends, adaptive radiations and extinctions.

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.