Relating to or characterized by anagenesis, describing evolutionary change within a single lineage.
Derived from anagenesis with the adjectival suffix -ic. It directly describes things that exhibit or relate to anagenetic evolutionary processes.
When biologists find fossils showing gradual change in one line of creatures over millions of years, they might call that pattern 'anagenetic evolution'—it's the slow transformation of one species into another without family trees branching.
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