emergent evolution

Definitions of emergent evolution
  1. noun
    the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution
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    type of:
    evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny
    (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
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