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- adjective Pertaining to, or causing
saltation
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There's also something called saltational mechanisms which produce abrupt evolutionary change, that is -- jumps -- where one form rapidly replaces another.
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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.
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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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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
maltezefalkon commented on the word saltational
It means "concerning a jump". I discovered the word in this article from the New York Times in this context:
In Biology, this refers to a mutation or any abrupt break in smooth evolution.
May 29, 2008