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Fig. 6 | Evolution: Education and Outreach

Fig. 6

From: Dissent with modification: how postcreationism’s claim of hyperrapid speciation opposes yet embraces evolutionary theory

Fig. 6

The use of the terms micro- and macroevolution to changes that occur within different taxonomic categories according to the creationary and evolutionary models of biological change. Postcreationists believe that microevolutionary processes cannot accrue to result in divergences seen in higher taxonomic groupings (in fact such grouping don’t make sense as clades since they were not unified by homologies via common ancestry) while many evolutionary biologists maintain that macroevolutionary patterns are an emergent property of continued microevolutionary processes occurring continuously within species

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