microevolution

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a population (over a few generations); also known as change at or below the species level.

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From micro- + evolution, coined by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt in 1909.

macroevolution

microevolutionist

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