"Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather,……" — Stephen Jay Gould

Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and… - Stephen Jay Gould

"Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes-to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale-a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny."

— Stephen Jay Gould

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