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A New Species Develops If A Population Which Has Become Geographically Isolated From Its Parental Species Acquires During This Period Of Isolation Characters Which Promote Or Guarantee Reproductive Isolation When The External Barriers Break Down.

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.

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

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.

I Have The Honesty To Say I'm An Atheist. There Is Nothing That Supports The Idea Of A Personal God.