"If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation……" — Stephen Jay Gould

"If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range ..."

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