saltationism
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English
Etymology
Noun
saltationism (uncountable)
- (evolutionary theory) The belief that evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.
- 1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015, →ISBN:
- Gould has misled himself by his own rhetorical emphasis on the purely poetic or literary resemblance between punctuationism, on the one hand, and true saltationism on the other.
Translations
the belief that evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or biological features
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Further reading
saltationism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
