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millidarwins

millidarwins is the plural of millidarwin.

Meaning of millidarwin

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

Questions about millidarwins

What is millidarwins the plural of?
Millidarwins is the plural of millidarwin.

Words near millidarwins in the dictionary

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

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