MACROEVOLUTION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("macroevolution" 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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