EMERGENT EVOLUTION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("emergent evolution" 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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