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- Darwinian evolution. Prior to Charles Darwin, most naturalists were saltationists, believing that species evolved and that speciation took place in sudden...
- of Tübingen, where he retired as professor emeritus in 1964. He was a saltationist who opposed the theory of gradual evolution, and in the 1930s suggested...
- alternative to Darwinism. Some forms of mutationism were effectively saltationist, implying large discontinuous jumps. Speciation, such as by polyploidy...
- present in the 1890s, between gradualists who followed Darwin, and saltationists such as Bateson. The two schools were the Mendelians, such as Bateson...
- experimenting with breeding the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, he was a saltationist who hoped to demonstrate that a new species could be created in the lab...
- zoologist who thinks through the implications, not even the most ardent saltationist, has ever supported any such notion." In the Structure of Evolutionary...
- Schoenhals is considered the seminal work on the Cultural Revolution. Saltationist Socialism: Mao Zedong and the Great Leap Forward 1958 (1987) Doing Things...
- versus gradualism (Darwin had represented gradualism, but Bateson was a saltationist). Later, Ronald Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane showed that discrete mutations...
- Red Banners Five-year Plans of China Mao Zedong Schoenhals, Michael. Saltationist socialism: Mao Zedong and the Great Leap Forward 1985. S.n., 1987....