[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Thanks for making me brush up on it. You're right - he doesn't call it the "hopeful monster" - he calls it punctuated equilibrium. But still saying Darwin's theory of slow gradual incremental change was not coorect."

He doesn't call it the *hopeful monster* theory because it isn't anything like it. No scientist says that speciation happens when one organism gives birth to a new species. Gould was calling for speciation that took place over tens of thousands of years, which is geologically *quick* but still gradual and in line with the main tenets of what Darwin said.

[bondserv]

He doesn't call it the *hopeful monster* theory because it isn't anything like it. No scientist says that speciation happens when one organism gives birth to a new species. Gould was calling for speciation that took place over tens of thousands of years, which is geologically *quick* but still gradual and in line with the main tenets of what Darwin said.

Did you minor in Law?