I did not claim that every genetic change in a founder population is a genetic revolution. Evidently it requires a special constellation for the occurrence of a more drastic genetic reorganization.
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Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.Ernst Mayr
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
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Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
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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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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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