English Explanatory Dictionary

orthoselection

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The hypothesis that posits that orthogenesis works by means of natural selection.
  2. The acquisition of a common series of rearrangements within a genetic lineage.

Word forms

orthoselection

Etymology

From ortho- + selection, originally coined by Ludwig Plate in 1913.

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