Usually means: New complex traits arise unexpectedly.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Emergent evolution)

noun:  the hypothesis that, in the course of evolution, some entirely new properties, such as mind and consciousness, appear at certain critical points, usually because of an unpredictable rearrangement of the already existing entities.


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