Evolution ... Is Opportunistic, Hence

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.

Two Forms Or Species Are Sympatric, If They Occur Together, That Is If Their Areas Of Distribution Overlap Or Coincide. Two Forms (or Species) Are Allapatric, If They Do Not Occur Together, That Is If They Exclude Each Other Geographically. The Term Allopatric Is Primarily Useful In Denoting Geographic Representatives.

It Seems To Me That For Darwin The Pulsing Of Evolutionary Rates Was A Strictly Vertical Phenomenon.

I Feel That One Species, Mankind, Doesn't Have The Right To Exterminate

Given The Fact Of Evolution, One Would Expect The Fossils To Document A Gradual Steady Change From Ancestral Forms To The Descendants. But This Is Not What The Paleontologist Finds. Instead, He Or She Finds Gaps In Just About Every Phyletic Series.