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MACROEVOLUTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does macroevolution mean?
• MACROEVOLUTION (noun)
The noun MACROEVOLUTION has 1 sense:
1. evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups
Familiarity information: MACROEVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("macroevolution" is a kind of...):
evolution; organic evolution; phylogenesis; phylogeny ((biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms)
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