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(politics) In evolutionary biology, belief that evolution does not proceed at a steady pace, but instead is characterized by periods of stasis, punctuated by brief (within several hundred-thousand years) periods of rapid change.

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Related dictionary entries include gradualism, saltationism, macromutationism, evolutionism, palingenesis, progressionist.

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