Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word MICROEVOLUTIONARY

Definitions of MICROEVOLUTIONARY

1. Of or pertaining to microevolution

Examples of Using MICROEVOLUTIONARY in a Sentence

• Fisher (1929); Sewall Wright (1956); Richard Lewontin (1970); Gould proposed that there exist macroevolutionary processes which shape evolution, not driven by the microevolutionary mechanisms of the Modern Synthesis.
• According to the authors of the 2008 study "Late Neandertals in Southeastern Iberia: Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, Murcia, Spain", the findings confirm the late occurrence of Neanderthals on the Iberian peninsula, and "suggest microevolutionary processes and/or population contact with contemporaneous modern humans to the north".

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