Sentences with phrase «darwinian gradualism»

But Darwinian gradualism simply means that one animal can't all of a sudden give birth to a new species.

PE completely decimated darwinian gradualism, that is the entire reason it was such a revolutionary concept and so hostilely received.

PE does NOT decimate darwinian gradualism, as you would know if you studied the science of PE and the various arguments by scientists that deal with it..

Lastly, your quote mine only suggests that Darwinian gradualism has lost favor (for example, its general displacement at the species level by PE).

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Darwinian evolution is a myth» @Chad «Darwinian evolution has been completely refuted, phyletic gradualism is dead, put to death by the fossil record»

Common ancestry is real, but Darwinian evolution (phyletic gradualism) IS a myth, there is absolutely no way to reconcile stasis and rapid change with purely random genetic mutation and natural selection

The acceptance of punctuated equilibrium put to death the then prevailing thought that gradual change was the evolutionary mechanism of speciation (Darwinian phyletic gradualism, which had held sway for > 100 years, was utterly debunked)

He recounts what he sees as the differences between evolutionary gradualism and punctuated equilibria, though not in any depth; nor does he mention the adaptationist / neutralist controversies, instead assuming that everyone accepts the strict Darwinian model.