Original sentence: Macroevolution can be seen as the sum of long periods of microevolution, and thus the two are qualitatively identical while being quantitatively different.Microevolution can be contrasted with macroevolution, which is the occurrence of large-scale changes in gene frequencies in a population over a geological time period (i
Edited sentence: Microevolution can be contrasted with Macroevolution, which is the occurrence of large-scale changes in gene frequencies in a population over a geological time period (i.The difference between Microevolution and Macroevolution is that Macroevolution is simply the sum of long periods of Microevolution, and thus the two are qualitatively identical while being quantitatively different.To claim that only Microevolution is possible is to not understand the distinction between the two