EVOLUTION BY SALTATIONS. “Suggestions to the contrary (to gradualism) were met with ridicule: geneticist Richard Goldschmidt, in 1940, envisioned subtle developmental mechanisms producing great leaps of adaptation, but his use of the phrase “hopeful monsters” was misrepresented as extreme saltationism (perfection in one jump), and equated with belief in miracles.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022