millidarwin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A unit of evolutionary change equivalent to one thousandth of a darwin.
Example Sentences
- "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.""
Etymology
From milli- + darwin.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: milli