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microevolution

microevolution noun: small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a population (over a few generations); also known as change at or below the species level.

Noun

microevolution (countable and uncountable, plural microevolutions)

  1. Small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a population (over a few generations); also known as change at or below the species level.
    • “It basically hasn’t become this massive chewing and grinding machine that it becomes later,” Mr. Martin said. The change would have been the result of microevolution, or an evolutionary change occurring within a species.2020 November 9, Nicholas St Fleur, “How a Human Cousin Adapted to a Changing Climate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

microevolution meaning in Malayalam and Arabic

microevolution in Malayalam

സൂക്ഷ്‌മപരിണാമം

microevolution in Arabic

small-scale changes in the history of life
اَلتَّطَوُّر الصَّغِير at-taṭawwur aṣ-ṣaḡīr

Forms of microevolution

pluralmicroevolutions

Origin of microevolution

From micro- + evolution, coined by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt in 1909.

Words formed from microevolution

Questions about microevolution

What does microevolution mean?
Microevolution means small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a population (over a few generations); also known as change at or below the species level.
What is microevolution in Malayalam?
Microevolution in Malayalam is സൂക്ഷ്‌മപരിണാമം. See Microevolution meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is microevolution?
Microevolution is a noun.
What is the plural of microevolution?
The plural of microevolution is microevolutions.

Words near microevolution in the dictionary

  1. microeukaryote
  2. microeukaryotes
  3. microeukaryotic
  4. microevent
  5. microevents
  6. microevolution
  7. microevolutional
  8. microevolutionarily
  9. microevolutionary
  10. microevolutionist
  11. microevolutionists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: microevolution (page history and authors); microevolution (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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