Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Large-scale evolution occurring over a very long period time that results in the formation of new species and higher-level taxonomic groups.
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- noun Large-scale patterns or processes in the history of
life , including theorigins ofnovel organism designs,evolutionary trends,adaptive radiations andextinctions .
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- noun evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups
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One of the questions that came up was about the claim that the term macroevolution is not a legitimate scientific term.
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One of the questions that came up was about the claim that the term macroevolution is not a legitimate scientific term.
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The opposite position to Gould's is the one taken by Simon Conway Morris, who has argued that there is so little "accidental-ness" and historical contingency in macroevolution that we would still appear near the end of each run, regardless of what environmental changes occurred in each run.
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More response for Mung on that quote – the evidence for common descent and macroevolution is vast, across an enormous amount of data.
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More response for Mung on that quote – the evidence for common descent and macroevolution is vast, across an enormous amount of data.
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Talkorigins 'evidence for macroevolution' is a red herring.
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So the claim that macroevolution is possible is unfalsifiable?
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So the claim that macroevolution is possible is unfalsifiable?
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Certainly Creation Ministries International and Answers in Genesis do not use the term, and specifically recommend against using the terms macroevolution and microevolution on these grounds, so I expect they would say the same about
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Thinker 2010
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Certainly Creation Ministries International and Answers in Genesis do not use the term, and specifically recommend against using the terms macroevolution and microevolution on these grounds, so I expect they would say the same about
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Tsommer 2010
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