microevolutionary
- adjective
- /ˌmaɪkroʊˌɛvəˈluːʃənəri/
- Specialized
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microevolutivo
- Understanding microevolutionary processes helps researchers predict how species may evolve in response to climate change.
- microevolutionary change
Examples
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The study revealed several microevolutionary adaptations in the local bird population over just a few years.
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Every cancer is its own little microevolutionary process.
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That is microevolutionary change and that's what we're now going to see played out.
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Applications to microevolutionary study.
Academic text (2010) -
This rate of evolution falls well within the range of microevolutionary change observed in some populations within the past century (Hendry and Kinnison 1999).
Academic text (2007) -
The interface between intraspecific and interspecific variation provides a critical link between microevolutionary processes within populations and larger patterns of diversification and adaptation.
Academic text (2000) -
Scientists observed microevolutionary changes in the bacteria as they adapted to different environmental conditions.
How Large
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Surface Forms
Morphology
microevolutionary = evolutionary (transparent) = micro + evolution + ary
The word is a regular adjective formed by adding the productive prefix micro- to evolutionary, so the meaning is readily recoverable.
Etymology
Microevolutionary joins micro- meaning 'small', as in microscope, and evolution meaning 'change over time'. So microevolutionary describes small evolutionary changes inside a species over a short time.
