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A macroevolutionary singularity can be viewed as a sudden shift into a higher evolutionary gear, and biologists suspect these outbursts have happened repeatedly throughout the history of life on Earth.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024

The authors of the upcoming Science study refer to this once-in-evolutionary-history event as a macroevolutionary singularity with "unknown and perhaps unknowable" causes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024

Extinction intensity, selectivity and their combined macroevolutionary influence in the fossil record.

From Nature • Apr. 10, 2018

Darwin’s Origin followed a similar narrative structure, starting with the simple processes of artificial selection that he knew readers would be familiar with and expanding into more complicated macroevolutionary ideas.

From Scientific American • Jul. 16, 2011

“Key innovations, convergence, and success: macroevolutionary lessons from plant phylogeny.”

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2010