"Hopeful Monsters", Saltationism, and Other Useful Ideas in Evolutionary Theory
The concept of "hopeful monsters" in evolutionary theory has a storied and somewhat controversial history. Coined by German geneticist Richard Goldschmidt in the early 20th century, the term refers to the idea that large, sudden mutations could produce entirely new species in a single generation—a radical departure from the gradualist perspective that d…
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a year ago · James Lyons-Weiler
Is there any way in which one can be open to the possibility that we did not ‘evolve’ from amoebas or or fish or reptiles or apes? …because we didn’t. The idea is simply preposterous on its merits.