The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur … - Ernst Mayr

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Ernst Mayr

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

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Evolution. . . is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

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New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

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