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millidarwin

millidarwin noun: a unit of evolutionary change equivalent to one thousandth of a darwin.

Noun

millidarwin (plural millidarwins)

  1. A unit of evolutionary change equivalent to one thousandth of a darwin.
    • Haldane concluded as Darwin had that the rate of evolution by natural selection in the world around us must be infinitesimally slow, far too slow to watch, that it could only be watched in the long, slow additions of the fossil record. Rates in the living world would have to be measured in...2014, Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 110

Forms of millidarwin

pluralmillidarwins

Origin of millidarwin

From milli- + darwin.

Questions about millidarwin

What does millidarwin mean?
Millidarwin means a unit of evolutionary change equivalent to one thousandth of a darwin.
What part of speech is millidarwin?
Millidarwin is a noun.
What is the plural of millidarwin?
The plural of millidarwin is millidarwins.

Words near millidarwin in the dictionary

  1. millicycle
  2. millicycles
  3. millidarcies
  4. millidarcy
  5. millidarcys
  6. millidarwin
  7. millidarwins
  8. millidegree
  9. millidegrees
  10. millidyne
  11. millidynes

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