I Feel That One Species, Mankind, Doesn't

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.

Living In An Entirely Different Physical As Well As Biotic Environment, Such A Population Would Have Unique Opportunities To Enter New Niches And To Select Novel Adaptive Pathways.

As A Consequence, Geneticists Described Evolution Simply As A Change In Gene Frequencies In Populations, Totally Ignoring The Fact That Evolution Consists Of The Two Simultaneous But Quite Separate Phenomena Of Adaptation And Diversification.

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.

In Neither His Definition Nor The Examples Illustrating What Memes Are Does Dawkins Mention Anything That Would Distinguish Memes From Concepts.