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Initially I was suspicious, but apparently this is a thing ("millidarwins" gets quite a few hits). Still, finding some cites would not hurt, and I am too lazy to remove the RFV banner. For a good start:

• 1994, Bruce J. MacFadden, Fossil Horses: Systematics, Paleobiology, and Evolution of the Family Equidae, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 191

  With regard to the use of darwins as a basis of comparison, several colleagues have presented a challenge that goes something like this: "How can you compare rates of evolution in mice and elephants? They are not the same."

— Keφr 20:12, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

• Close Dude, it was cited before you even started the discussion; within a matter of minutes. One could also use:
• 2014, Jonathan Weiner,"The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time", Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group →ISBN, page 110.

  Haldane concluded as Darwin had that the rate of evolution by natural selection in the world around us must be infinitesimally slow, far too slow to watch, that it could only be watched in the long, slow additions of the fossil record. Rates in the living world would have to be measured in millidarwins. In artificial selection, he said, you get rates of thousands of darwins, but that is not something you would see in the wild: "Rates of one darwin would be exceptional in nature."

Purplebackpack89 22:36, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Done. Renard Migrant (talk) 22:58, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

• @Purplebackpack89 For someone who constantly complains about being verbally abused by others, you sure seem to have a talent for it yourself. DCDuring TALK 01:49, 13 November 2014 (UTC)