mesoevolution
English
Etymology
meso- + evolution
Alternative forms
- meso-evolution
Noun
mesoevolution (uncountable)
- (biology) Evolutionary change on a time-scale intermediate between microevolution and macroevolution
- 2019, Christopher H. Martin and Emilie J. Richards, “The Paradox Behind the Pattern of Rapid Adaptive Radiation: How Can the Speciation Process Sustain Itself Through an Early Burst?”, in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, volume 50, pages 25.1-25.25:
- We define this scale between a single speciation event and global macroevolutionary patterns as mesoevolution
- (biology) The parallel evolution of related organisms
Related terms
- mesoevolutionary