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MICROEVOLUTION

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

• MICROEVOLUTION (noun)

Sense 1

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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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