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Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.
— Ernst Mayr
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Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.
— Ernst Mayr
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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
— Ernst Mayr
Tags: theory, most, small, change
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
— Ernst Mayr
Tags: drastic, population, small, change
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
— Ernst Mayr
Tags: ignoring, two, evolution, change
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