Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to the advancement or progressive development of organisms.
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- adjective Relating to
anagenesis .
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The rôle of the anagenetic energies is to raise the inferior energies to their own level by assimilating inorganic substances.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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You would demand thousands of intermediate generations to form a chain of evidence to prove anagenetic speciation (the gradual changes cumulativly significant enough over time that it is reasonable to conclude that the changed form was so different that it would not have been able to reproduce with the original ancestral form).
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This cladogram was determined to be the most anagenetic (or gradualistic) interpretation of the fossil parsimonious one in a recent cladistic analysis of fossil hominins (adapted record tend to stress the importance of continuities in the from fig. 10 in Strait & Grine, 2004). fossil record and opt for fewer species.
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