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Suggest Revision: In Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.
 
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Suggest Revision: New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
 
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Suggest Revision: I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.
 
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Suggest Revision: I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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