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Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.


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Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.



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most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.



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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.



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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.



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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.





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