metaevolution

metaevolution
a) The evolution of the elements of evolutionary systems.

More recently, however, it has become increasingly realized that symbiosis is at the core of the evolution of evolutionary levels and mechanisms—of a metaevolution—in the microevolution of life.

b) A scientific discipline which goes "beyond evolution" to establish a groundwork for applying concepts from the biological theory of evolution, such as natural selection and survival of the fittest, to the investigation and explanation of non-living systems.

The notion of event is also associated with that of metaevolution in biology (the evolution of the evolutionary processes themselves).


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