saltationism

noun

Etymology

From saltation + -ism.

Definitions

  1. The belief that evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or biological…

    The belief that evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

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