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Originally posted by R Havell@Mar 30 2005, 05:05 PM
Macroevolution (which is a term I haven't heard anyone use except you)
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Well I tried to stay shutted up LOL No problem though...
Just FYI, it's been around for 78 years.
k: (I didn't make it up
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The terms macroevolution and microevolution were first coined in 1927 by the Russian entomologist Iurii Filipchenko (or Philipchenko, depending on the transliteration), in his German-language work Variabilität und Variation, which was the first attempt to reconcile Mendelian genetics and evolution. Filipchenko was an evolutionist.