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

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.

Isolating Mechanisms Are Biological Properties Of Individuals That Prevent The Interbreeding Of Populations That Are Actually Or Potentially Sympatric.

A Species Consists Of A Group Of Populations Which Replace Each Other Geographically Or Ecologically And Of Which The Neighboring Ones Integrate Or Hybridise Wherever They Are In Contact Or Which Are Potentially Capable Of Doing So (with One Or More Of The Populations) In Those Cases Where Contact Is Prevented By Geographical Or Ecological Barriers.

The Most Consequential Change In Man's View Of The World, Of Living Nature And Of Himself Came With The Introduction, Over A Period Of Some 100 Years Beginning Only In The 18th Century, Of The Idea Of Change Itself, Of Change Over Periods Of Time: In A Word, Of Evolution.