May 9th, 2006 The Lone Beagle
EVOLUTION IS the variation of allele frequencies in a population as a result of differential replicative success. What this means is that both micro-evolution and macro-evolution are, to a greater extent, simply different degrees of the same thing. Micro-evolution is a term used by science to describe accumulated changes within a population, macro-evolution is a term used to describe accumulated micro-evolutionary changes that when viewed at a distance represent related organisms that we have categorized as belonging to different higher than species taxa.
The reason we know those species are related, even though they show morphologies we catagorize as belonging to different taxa - Genera, Family, Order… - is because of multiple lines of evidence.
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