metaevolution

plural metaevolutions · alternative meta-evolution

1. uncountableusuallybiologyThe evolution of the elements of evolutionary systems. Applying evolutionary concepts to non-living systems. Applying evolutionary concepts to individual learning and personal development. Examining the implications and past and future developments of evolution.

   The notion of event is also associated with that of metaevolution in biology (the evolution of the evolutionary processes themselves).

   2004, Elías Palti, “The ‘Return of the Subject’ as a Historico-Intellectual Problem”, in History and Theory, vol. 43, no. 1, p. 76, note 53

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   More recently, however, it has become increasingly realized that symbiosis is at the core of the evolution of evolutionary levels and mechanisms—of a metaevolution—in the microevolution of life.

   1980, Erich Jantsch, “Ethics and Evolution”, in The North American Review, volume 265, number 3, page 16