Meaning of millidarwin | Babel Free

Definitions

A unit of evolutionary change equivalent to one thousandth of a darwin.

Examples

“Haldane concluded as Darwin had that the rate of evolution by natural selection in the world around us must be infinitesimally slow, far too slow to watch⟳, that it could only be watched in the long, slow additions of the fossil record⟳. Rates in the living world would have⟳ to be measured in millidarwins. In artificial selection, he said, you get⟳ rates of thousands of darwins, but that is not something you would see⟳ in the wild: "Rates of one darwin would be exceptional in nature."”

CEFR level