• Macroevolution comprises the evolutionary processes and patterns which occur at and above the species level. In contrast, microevolution is evolution occurring...
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  • antibiotic resistance. Microevolution provides the raw material for macroevolution. Macroevolution is guided by sorting of interspecific variation ("species selection")...
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    while macroevolution focuses on the ability of species to survive over others. While some viewpoints believe that microevolution and macroevolution are...
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    Schoch's PhD dissertation, Systematics, Functional Morphology and Macroevolution of the Extinct Mammalian Order Taeniodonta, was published in 1986 by...
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    non-polynomial functions. Interspecific competition is a major factor in macroevolution. Darwin assumed that interspecific competition limits the number of...
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  • ancestors; [but] appear all at once and "fully formed." The view rejects macroevolution, claiming it is biologically untenable and not supported by the fossil...
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    microevolution developed by the population geneticists and the patterns of macroevolution observed by field biologists, with his 1937 book Genetics and the Origin...
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  • However, like YEC and in contrast with TE, some forms of it reject macroevolution, claiming it is biologically untenable and not supported by the fossil...
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    officer at the National Science Foundation. His research focuses on macroevolution, and he has considered various topics in this area including support...
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    crest located on their crown, used for communication and courtship. Macroevolution of the human crown has led to different structures between modern and...
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    Lauren Sallan is an American academic who is the head of the Macroevolution Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and was previously...
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  • "Development". Data from: A modular framework characterizes micro- and macroevolution of Old World monkey dentitions (Data Set). Dryad Digital Repository...
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    evolution are distinguished based on time scale as macroevolution versus microevolution. Macroevolution refers to evolution that occurs at or above the level...
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    ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 2772121. PMID 19911059. Benson, R.B.J. (2018). "Dinosaur Macroevolution and Macroecology". Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics...
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  • (2002) is Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould's technical book on macroevolution and the historical development of evolutionary theory. The book was...
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    potential mates. Possible mechanisms have been proposed to explain macroevolution of sexual size dimorphism in birds. These include sexual selection,...
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  • of macroevolutionary ones. As biologists define macroevolution, both microevolution and macroevolution have been observed. Speciations, for example, have...
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  • 408 Its place in evolutionary theory comes under long-term trends or macroevolution. In the neodarwinist theory of evolution, as postulated by Stephen Jay...
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  • and heterochrony. Controversially, Goldschmidt advanced a model of macroevolution through macromutations popularly known as the "Hopeful Monster" hypothesis...
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  • Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and Historical Perspective. The book, Mayr notes in the Forward, is...
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    traits become more favoured due to changes in the broader environment, macroevolution occurs. Sometimes, new species can arise especially if these new traits...
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    Isabelle Kruta; Royal H. Mapes (eds.). Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography. Topics in Geobiology 44. Vol. 44. Springer. pp. 3–24...
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    evolution from common ancestors with other members of the great apes), macroevolution, and the existence of transitional fossils. [The] Discovery [Institute]...
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  • viewed the history of early hominin fossils and concluded that actual macroevolution change via anagenesis was scarce. A dynamic evolutionary map (DEM) is...
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    suggests a novel approach to the formation of a general theory of social macroevolution. The approach prevalent in social evolutionism is based on the assumption...
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    post-Palaeozoic crinoids – in quest of the factors affecting crinoid macroevolution". Lethaia. 49 (2): 231–244. Bibcode:2016Letha..49..231G. doi:10.1111/let...
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    ISSN 0024-4082. Cau, Andrea (2024). "A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution" (PDF). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 63 (1): 1–19...
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