| 单词 | hopeful monster |
| 释义 | hopeful monster Biol. a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution. [1933; phrase introduced by German geneticist Richard B. Goldschmidt (1879-1958)] |
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