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EMERGENT EVOLUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)