- metaevolution
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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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