To: VadeRetro
HOPEFUL MONSTER THEORY
A concept first introduced out of necessity by the geneticist, Richard Goldschmidt, which states that evolution occurs by sudden and large changes in the offspring of a species resulting in radically different but well adapted organisms, i.e. "hopeful monsters." After being widely discredited for many years this idea is being reintroduced, out of necessity, as a serious theory. The great leaps forward implicit in this theory entirely account for the absence of the "missing links." (See Punctuated Equilibrium)
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06/11/2003 2:19:18 PM PDT by
f.Christian
(( apocalypsis, from Gr. apokalypsis, from apokalyptein to uncover, from apo- + kalyptein to cover))
To: f.Christian
Punctuated Equilibrium is not Goldschmidt's "hopeful monster" theory. You have been corrected on this more often than people have posted you the okapi.
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