emergent evolution
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e·mer·gent ev·o·lu·tion
appearance of a property in a complex system for example, organism that could have been predicted only with difficulty, or perhaps not at all, from a knowledge and understanding of the individual genotype changes taken separately.
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e·mer·gent ev·o·lu·tion
(ē-mĕrjĕnt ev-ŏ-lūshŭn)Appearance of a property in a complex system e.g., organism that could have been predicted only with difficulty, or perhaps not at all, from a knowledge and understanding of the individual genotype changes taken separately.
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