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This would be expected to have an effect on themicroevolutionof the islanders.
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Contrary to claims by creationists, macro andmicroevolutiondescribe fundamentally identical processes on different time scales.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Typically, observable instances of evolution are examples ofmicroevolution; for example, bacterial strains that have antibiotic resistance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Creationists argued that the peppered moth story showed onlymicroevolution, rather than speciation or other changes at the larger macroevolutionary scale.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ecological genetics concerns itself with observingmicroevolutionin the wild.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He conducted research in radiation genetics, experimental population genetics, andmicroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Population genetics is the branch of biology that provides the mathematical structure for the study of the process ofmicroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Whereas evolutionary biologists and creationists share similar views ofmicroevolution, creationists disagree that the process of macroevolution can explain common ancestry among organisms far beyond the level of common species.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Goldschmidt thought that small gradual changes could not bridge the hypothetical divide betweenmicroevolutionand macroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Although creationists acceptmicroevolutionof varieties within a kind, they claim that macroevolution does not happen.
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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 between macroevolution andmicroevolution, 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.The core of the debate for me, therefore, is the extrapolation ofmicroevolutionto macroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Microevolutionover time may lead to speciation or the appearance of novel structure, sometimes classified as macroevolution.
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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.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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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In general, macroevolution is regarded as the outcome of long periods ofmicroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Her claim thatmicroevolutionis quite different from macroevolution is a common contention.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He thought that small gradual changes could not bridge the hypothetical divide betweenmicroevolutionand macroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Generally, there is ambiguity as to where they draw a line on species, created kinds, etc. and what events and lineages fall within the rubric ofmicroevolutionor macroevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Microevolutionis reductionist, but macroevolution is holistic.
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