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MICROEVOLUTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does microevolution mean?
• MICROEVOLUTION (noun)
The noun MICROEVOLUTION has 1 sense:
1. evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies
Familiarity information: MICROEVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("microevolution" 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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