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- adjective Of or pertaining to
microevolution
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Examples
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In other words, if you're going to talk specifically about selection of early biotic chemistry processes, as opposed to natural selection in the broad sense, you should say so. (you made it sound as if you thought natural selection in the "microevolutionary" sense was nonsense, which would have been ridiculously silly)
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The variation among domestic dog breeds offers a unique opportunity to study large‐scale diversification by microevolutionary mechanisms.
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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If you ask about abiogenesis, then the neodarwinist will talk about some microevolutionary event and say, Nobody in their right mind doubts evolution.
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They claim that they can apply microevolutionary processes to macroevolutionary problems, but of course this is plain silly.
Adaptationism 2007
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In short, the microevolutionary blind watch-breaker revealed by the data is too feeble, inept, and destructive to explain the abundant fine machinery of the cell.
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Natural selection is an agent of microevolutionary change that tends to lead to an population's becoming “adapted” to its environment.
Natural selection 2009
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Even the thesis at talk. origins titled "29+ Evidences of Macroevolution" focuses in part on microevolutionary events, a blatant misrepresentation of it's central premise, nor in its true speciation examples does it effectively make the case for natural causation.
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No biologist is going to argue that microevolutionary mechanisms explain events at speciation level and above – since speciation is a macroevolutionary phenomenon.
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Behe makes a legitimate and worthwhile case to show that the microevolutionary processes we see at work do not reasonably account for the macroevolutionary changes in life's history.
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Why do Gallotia lizards in the Galápagos show a phylogenetic distribution from older to younger islands? eric: Behe makes a legitimate and worthwhile case to show that the microevolutionary processes we see at work do not reasonably account for the macroevolutionary changes in life's history.
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