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saltationism in British English
noun: a theory about the sudden rise of new species as a result of mutations
noun: any of several theories holding that the evolution of species proceeds in major steps by the abrupt transformation of an ancestral species into a descendant species of a different type, rather than by the gradual accumulation of small changes

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