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    ORGANIC EVOLUTION

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organismsplay

    Synonyms:

    evolution; organic evolution; phylogenesis; phylogeny

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural processes

    Hypernyms ("organic evolution" is a kind of...):

    biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

    Domain category:

    biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

    Domain member category:

    Scopes trial (a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organic evolution"):

    anamorphism; anamorphosis (the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes)

    anthropogenesis; anthropogeny (the evolution or genesis of the human race)

    emergent evolution (the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution)

    macroevolution (evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups)

    microevolution (evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies)

    speciation (the evolution of a biological species)

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