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- noun In evolutionary biology, belief that
evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.
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Alan Fox: Dawkins has said saltationism is creationism
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Alan Fox: Dawkins has said saltationism is creationism.
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He describes saltationism, which is what I think Alan is referring to, extremely exaggerates the evolutionary role of saltations, considering these to be the main factor of speciation and macroevolution.
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That idea is called saltationism, by the way, and is generally not accepted by biologists.
Saturday On the Cusp of a New Age | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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A "monkeys & typewriters" program would simply guess strings independently until it got a match, which would take a very long time; such a "monkeys" program could be regarded as a model of saltationism, but not selective evolution.
The Weasel Thread 2009
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Other mechanisms are either false (such as Lamarckism, the inheritance of acquired characteristics) or inadequate (such as saltationism, change by sudden jumps).
Michael Ruse: Darwinism And The Problem Of Evil Michael Ruse 2011
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Other mechanisms are either false (such as Lamarckism, the inheritance of acquired characteristics) or inadequate (such as saltationism, change by sudden jumps).
Michael Ruse: Darwinism And The Problem Of Evil Michael Ruse 2011
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A "monkeys & typewriters" program would simply guess strings independently until it got a match, which would take a very long time; such a "monkeys" program could be regarded as a model of saltationism, but not selective evolution.
The Weasel Thread 2009
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Running through the various evolutionary options -- Lamarckism (the inheritance of acquired characteristics), saltationism (evolution by massive jumps), and others -- Dawkins points out that either they are false (Lamarckism) or they fail to account for adaptive complexity (saltationism).
Michael Ruse: Intelligent Design: Did God Create Through Law or Miracle? Michael Ruse 2010
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The author rejects saltationism as normally construed.
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Lamarckism, the inheritance of acquired characteristics) or inadequate (such as saltationism, change by sudden jumps)
January 21, 2022