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Saltational evolution: hopeful monsters are here to stay.

Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften - 1 Mar 2009

Theissen Günter

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Since 150 years it is hypothesized now that evolution always proceeds in a countless number of very small steps (Darwin in On the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle of life, Murray, London, 1859), a view termed "gradualism". Few c...

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PMID: 19224263
DOI: 10.1007/s12064-009-0058-z

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