Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun macroevolution

1 sense of macroevolution

Sense 1
macroevolution -- (evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups)
       => evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis -- ((biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms)