Mutation and evolution

Tag: creativity

  • Why size matters: Saltationism, creativity, and the reign of the DiNOs

    Debates on “gradualism” in evolutionary biology address the size distribution of evolutionary changes.  The classical Darwinian position, better described as “infinitesimalism”, holds that evolutionary change is smooth in the sense of being composed of an abundance of infinitesimals (not one infinitesimal at a time, but a blending flow of infinitesimals).  …