Why is a species called a qualitative stage of evolution, and a population – a unit of evolution?
September 26, 2020 | Education
| With the formation of a new species, microevolutionary processes do not stop, but continue further without any interruption. With the emergence of a new species, only one stage of the grandiose and constantly ongoing process of evolution in the living world is completed and a new stage begins – the formation of a new species with new properties and a new fate. Therefore, a species is called a qualitative ethane of the evolutionary process, and since microevolution and speciation occur in populations of a species, the population is called the basic elementary unit of evolution.
