MICROEVOLUTION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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