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Definition of: emergent evolution
A philosophical theory stated by C. Lloyd Morgan and S. Alexander differentiating between two types of evolutionary products: resultants, which are predictable from previously existing conditions; and emergents, such as new species and new manifestations of life which are not predictable from the known laws of matter.
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