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  • adjective Pertaining to, or causing saltation

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Examples

  • This is not at all valid and I think it's a big mistake because we know there are non-linear and what I call saltational mechanisms of embryonic development that could have contributed -- and I'm virtually certain they did -- to evolution.

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • This is not at all valid and I think it's a big mistake because we know there are non-linear and what I call saltational mechanisms of embryonic development that could have contributed -- and I'm virtually certain they did -- to evolution.

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • This is not at all valid and I think it's a big mistake because we know there are non-linear and what I call saltational mechanisms of embryonic development that could have contributed - and I'm virtually certain that they did - to evolution.

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • This is not at all valid and I think it's a big mistake because we know there are non-linear and what I call saltational mechanisms of embryonic development that could have contributed - and I'm virtually certain that they did - to evolution.

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • This is not at all valid and I think it's a big mistake because we know there are non-linear and what I call saltational mechanisms of embryonic development that could have contributed -- and I'm virtually certain they did -- to evolution.

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • This is not at all valid and I think it's a big mistake because we know there are non-linear and what I call saltational mechanisms of embryonic development that could have contributed -- and I'm virtually certain they did -- to evolution.

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • There's also something called saltational mechanisms which produce abrupt evolutionary change, that is -- jumps -- where one form rapidly replaces another.

    Olduvai, Evolution, and Darwin 2009

  • Over the years I would say there was a backing off by Gould and Eldredge from considering what evolutionary biologists would call saltational mechanisms, which are true jumps.

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • Over the years I would say there was a backing off by Gould and Eldredge from considering what evolutionary biologists would call saltational mechanisms, which are true jumps.

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • Over the years I would say there was a backing off by Gould and Eldredge from considering what evolutionary biologists would call saltational mechanisms, which are true jumps.

    ScreenTalk 2009

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  • It means "concerning a jump". I discovered the word in this article from the New York Times in this context:

    "If you do statistics in the context of something you’re interested in and are good at, then it becomes an incremental as opposed to a saltational jump," Dr. Wilson said.

    In Biology, this refers to a mutation or any abrupt break in smooth evolution.

    May 29, 2008