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Our Understanding Of The World Is Achieved More Effectively By Conceptual Improvements Than By Discovery Of New Facts

Evolution Thus Is Merely Contingent On Certain Processes Articulated By Darwin: Variation And Selection.

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.

Paleontologists Had Long Been Aware Of A Seeming Contradiction Between Darwin's Postulate Of Gradualism, Confirmed By The Work Of Population Genetics, And The Actual Findings Of Paleontology. Following Phyletic Lines Through Time Seemed To Reveal Only Minimal Gradual Changes But No Clear Evidence For Any Change Of A Species Into A Different Genus Or For The Gradual Origin Of An Evolutionary Novelty. Anything Truly Novel Always Seemed To Appear Quite Abruptly In The Fossil Record.

To Take An Unequivocal Stand, It Seems To Me, Is Of Greater Heuristic Value And Far More Likely To Stimulate Constructive Criticism Than To Evade The Issue.