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I heartily recommend this book to anyone with an interest in evolution - it goes a long way to rehabilitatingmacroevolutionand is a pleasure to read.
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Although creationists accept microevolution of varieties within a kind, they claim thatmacroevolutiondoes not happen.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thus, the distinction between micro- andmacroevolutionis not a fundamental one the only difference between them is of time and scale.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Inmacroevolution, an accumulation of microevolutionary changes leads to speciation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Additionally, pastmacroevolutioncan be inferred from historical traces.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Additionally, the modern evolutionary synthesis draws no distinction betweenmacroevolutionand microevolution, considering the former to simply be the latter on a larger scale.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has been designed to investigate several broad ecological questions, as well as long-term evolutionary patterns and processes such as speciation andmacroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The core of the debate for me, therefore, is the extrapolation of microevolution tomacroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, inmacroevolution, the traits of the entire species may be important.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Microevolution over time may lead to speciation or the appearance of novel structure, sometimes classified asmacroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The claim thatmacroevolutiondoes not occur, or is impossible, is not supported by the scientific community.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For instance, denial ofmacroevolutionis one of many objections to evolution which have been addressed (see also introduction to evolution).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Under this definition,macroevolutioncan be considered to be a fact, as evidenced by observed instances of speciation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They accept that evolutionary change is possible within what they call kinds (microevolution), but deny that one kind can evolve into another (macroevolution).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Paleontology, evolutionary developmental biology, comparative genomics and genomic phylostratigraphy contribute most of the evidence for the patterns and processes that can be classified asmacroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The symposium focused its attention on the possibility that modern microevolutionary studies could revitalize various aspects of paleontology andmacroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its place in evolutionary theory comes under long-term trends ormacroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A second issue was whether the broad-scale changes (macroevolution) seen by palaeontologists could be explained by changes seen in local populations (microevolution).
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