NO SUSPENDED DISBELIEF. "A hopeful monster is an individual phenotypically discontinuous from the range of phenotypes of its population, and whose hopes of establishing a new lineage lie in finding a novel niche for which its monstrosity happens to be preadapted. Such a mechanism of speciation was criticized early for being so improbable as to “overtax one’s credulity” because of the rarity of the initial mutation of large effect, and the resulting improbability of finding an equally monstrous mate." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-012-9209-0 View in LinkedIn