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microevolution

noun

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from ēvolūtiō
  2. prefixed as microevolution — “micro + evolution”

Definitions

  1. Small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a…

    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.

    • “It basically hasn’t become this massive chewing and grinding machine that it becomes later,” Mr. Martin said. The change would have been the result of microevolution, or an evolutionary change occurring within a species.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microevolution. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA