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- noun Plural form of
saltation .
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According to Woese and co-workers, when the three primary domains evolved from a common pre-cellular milieu, they did so independently, via what they call "a brief series of major evolutionary saltations" (2008, 13953).
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P A Nelson: According to Woese and co-workers, when the three primary domains evolved from a common pre-cellular milieu, they did so independently, via what they call "a brief series of major evolutionary saltations" (2008, 13953).
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Current data confirm the possibility of interspecies and mophofunctional saltations as relatively rare modes of evolutionary changes.
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Morphofunctional saltations result in the arising of macromorphoses that can sometimes stimulate the beginning of macroevolutionary typogenesis.
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I did allow for the possibility of saltations, something that several evolutionary biologists allow for.
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I don't think there are any evolutionary biologists who allow that possibility, as there is certainly nothing like evidence for saltations.
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Morphofunctional saltations result in the arising of macromorphoses that can sometimes stimulate the beginning of macroevolutionary typogenesis.
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Morphofunctional saltations result in the arising of macromorphoses that can sometimes stimulate the beginning of macroevolutionary typogenesis.
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I did allow for the possibility of saltations, something that several evolutionary biologists allow for.
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JJS: I did allow for the possibility of saltations, something that several evolutionary biologists allow for.
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