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Was bezeichnen Kreationisten mit dem Begriff Mikroevolution?
Mit Mikroevolution wird vor allem in Kreationismus und Intelligent Design jene evolutionäre Entwicklung von Lebewesen bezeichnet, welche innerhalb einer biologischen Art und damit innerhalb eines in evolutionären Maßstäben kurzen Zeitraumes stattfindet.
Was ist Mikro und Makroevolution?
Demnach sei Makroevolution einfach die Summe mikroevolutiver Veränderungen über geologische Zeiträume. Demnach ist Makroevolution der Teil von Evolution, der durch Selektion zwischen Arten stattfindet, im Gegensatz zu Mikroevolution, die auf der Selektion zwischen Organismen derselben Art beruht.
What is microevolution and how does it occur?
Microevolution is the change in allele frequencies that occurs over time within a population. This change is due to four different processes: mutation, selection ( natural and artificial ), gene flow and genetic drift. This change happens over a relatively short (in evolutionary terms) amount of time compared to…
Who first proposed the distinction between micro and macroevolution?
The Russian/Soviet entomologist Yuri Filipchenko (Cyrillic: Юрий Филипченко) first posited a distinction between microevolution and macroevolution in 1927 in his book Variabilität und Variation (German to English translation: Variability and Variation ).
Does macroevolution produce evolutionary novelties?
Macroevolution does not produce evolutionary novelties, but it determines their proliferation within the clades in which they evolved, and it adds species-level traits as non-organismic factors of sorting to this process.
What is the relationship between mutation and macroevolution?
If the mutation is advantageous to the point where it gives the organism an adaptive advantage in an environment, it is likely to spread through the population through the process of natural selection, eventually leading to macroevolution.