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Chronospecies

Chronospecies logo #21000 A chronospecies is a group of one or more species derived from a sequential development pattern which involves continual and uniform changes from an extinct ancestral form on an evolutionary scale. This sequence of alterations eventually produces a population which is physically, morphologically, and/or genetically distinct from the original ances...
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chronospecies

chronospecies logo #20973<biology> A chronospecies is a species which changes physically, morphologically, genetically, and/or behaviourally over time on an evolutionary scale (experiences a phyletic shift) such that the species from the early point in time and the species it becomes at the later point in time could not be classified as the same species had they exis...
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chronospecies

chronospecies logo #21009chronospecies 1. A species which is represented in more than one geological time horizon. 2. The successive species replacing each other in a phyletic lineage which are given ancestor and descendant status according to the geological time sequence. 3. Any species for which there is paleontological evidence throuh a period of time.
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