In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
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I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.Ernst Mayr
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.
Ernst Mayr
Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.
Ernst Mayr
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
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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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I have been unable to discover in Darwin's writings any connection between allopatric speciation and change of evolutionary rate.
Ernst Mayr
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