Table 1.
Key Scientists Advocating non-Gradualist Evolution in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Evolutionist | Non-Gradual Evolutionary Process |
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William Bateson (1861–1926) | Discontinuous variation |
Hugo de Vries (1848–1935) | Abrupt mutational variation |
Konstantin Mereschkowsky (1855–1921) | Evolution by symbiogenesis |
Ivan E. Wallin (1883–1969) | Evolution by symbiogenesis (“Symbionticism”) |
Boris Mikhailovich Kozo-Polyansky, (1890–1957) | Evolution by symbiogenesis |
George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984) | Quantum evolution |
Richard Goldschmidt (1878–1958) | “Hopeful monsters” formed by redirecting developmental programs |
George Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000) | Hybrid Speciation (“Cataclysmic Evolution”) |
Niles Eldredge (b. 1943) and Stephen J. Gould (1941–2002) | Punctuated equilibrium |
Lynn Margulis (1938–2011) | Evolution by symbiogenesis |
A fully referenced version of this table is available online as Supplementary Table S1.