Moreover, the study touches on broader questions of macroevolution: how new species arise, adapt and diversify.

Over the course of two days, sessions covered sexual selection and macroevolution, the identification of sexual selection in the fossil record, relevant patterns, processes and mechanisms, and more.

A latest example is his superb critique of the classic creationist claim that while microevolution has been observed, macroevolution, the origen of new species, has not.

Rather, Abzhanov showed that the same forces that shape microevolution — minor alterations within species — also drive macroevolution, the evolution of whole new features and new groups of species.

It may be helpful to differentiate between macroevolution and microevolution in the somatic evolution of DCCs.