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EMERGENT EVOLUTION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does emergent evolution mean?

• EMERGENT EVOLUTION (noun)
The noun EMERGENT EVOLUTION has 1 sense:

1. the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution

Familiarity information: EMERGENT EVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.

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• EMERGENT EVOLUTION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("emergent evolution" 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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