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Wherever We Look At The Living Biota … Discontinuities Are Overwhelmingly Frequent…the Discontinuities Are Even More Striking In The Fossil Record. New Species Usually Appear In The Fossil Record Suddenly, Not Connected With Their Ancestors By A Series Of Intermediates.

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.

There Is More To Biology Than Rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, And E. Coli.

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.

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.