Gould has misled himself by his own rhetorical emphasis on the purely poetic or literary resemblance between punctuationism, on the one hand, and true saltationism on the other.
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Saltationism
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1 entries- saltacionismo noun (the belief that evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or biological features)
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