Tempo and Mode in Evolution
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Tempo and Mode in Evolution
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Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944) was George Gaylord Simpson's seminal contribution to the evolutionary synthesis, which integrated the facts of paleontology with those of genetics and natural selection. Simpson argued that the microevolution of population genetics was sufficient in itself to explain the patterns of macroevolution observed by paleontology. Simpson also highlighted the distinction between tempo and mode. "Tempo" encompasses "evolutionary rates … their acceleration and decelerati
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2005-03-10T13:41:49Z
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2024-08-28T05:00:41Z
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