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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (266034)6/22/2002 11:00:35 AM
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Re: "Modern science projects the notion everything evolved smoothly...."

>>> Er, no it doesn't. The generally accepted 'Theory of Punctuated Evolution' recognizes that repeated occurrences of 'extinction level events' and other sudden pressures on species have produced great bursts of speciation in the aftermath of the crisis.

>>> It is theorized (and observed) that species may go through very long periods of stagnant-to-slow evolutionary change... which are punctuated by sudden bursts of radical evolutionary change after a mass-extinction as the few surviving organisms branch out to fill now empty ecological niches.
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