tachytely
tachytely A rate of evolution within a group which is much faster than the average or horotelic rate. Such accelerated evolution typically occurs when an organism enters a new adaptive zone and initiates an adaptive radiation to fill the available niches. Compare bradytely.
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Molecular Clock , molecular clock The concept that during evolution the number of substitutions in the nucleotides of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA), and hence in the prot… explosive evolution , explosive evolution A sudden diversification or adaptive radiation of a group. The term is an old one, rarely used nowadays. Phases of explosive evol… Mosaic Evolution , mosaic evolution The evolution of different parts of an organism at different rates. For example, many aspects of the human phenotype have evolved re… Iterative Evolution , Skip to main content
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quantum evolution Adaptive Radiation , adaptive radiation
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