evolutionary leap

• mutationPermanent DNA alteration
• adaptationFitting to new conditions
• breakthroughSudden important advance
• quantum jumpInstantaneous state transition
• transformationThorough change in form

emergence · speciation · metamorphosis · natural selection · Darwin · survival · fitness · genetic · threshold · paradigm shift · missing link · fossil · ancestor · primate · Cambrian explosion · apex · trait · divergence