But the saltatory origin of horticultural novelties is as yet the simplest parallel for natural mutations, since it relates to forms and phenomena, best known to the general student of evolution.
We have seen that the notion of sudden changes--saltatory actions in nature--has received countenance from Professor Huxley.
Each temple has a band of eight or ten of these girls, who celebrate their saltatory rites morning and evening.
Dramatic representations usually accompany these saltatory exhibitions, wherein the various phases of a lover's trials, comical sketches, or battles are depicted.
A dance is generally a grand affair with the native, combining as it does dress with dramatic and saltatory exhibitions.
From wounds of veins the blood flows, not in a sub-saltatory but in a uniform stream: its colour is dark, and the flow is easily suppressed.
That it is wounded is known by the impetuous and saltatory flow of florid blood, accompanied with a wheezing noise.
You refer to the young gentleman on the top of the cook's galley, who is occupied with certain saltatory movements which appear to be an awkward imitation of dancing?
Peter and Paul were engaged in a hot controversy with Old Nick, whose youthful namesake was occupied with certain saltatory movements on the top of the forecastle.
In short, his fiddling--for its communication of saltatory fury to the heels of his countrymen--was like the bite of a tarantula.
The beast had no idea of such saltatory proceedings, and jerked himself over it three times most abominably.
My bruises made the saltatory movements of our crazy conveyance doubly torturing; in short, all things were the perfection of misery.
Professor Spencer wonders why these creatures are saltatory in habit.
The chief foes of this rare Marsupial appear to be predatory birds; and Professor Spencer thinks that the saltatory mode of progression may be more baffling to such pursuers than even a rapid run.
For they certainly did on that eventful evening, and I feel called upon to enter my solemn protest against these nocturnal architectural saltatory exhibitions, as unworthy the dignity of the Empire City.
In Jim Crow Dance and Chorus (the title of the sketch referred to), we find the leading men of all parties assembled at a ball, engaged in the new saltatory performance initiated by Mr. Rice.
If any epistemologist could dispense with a conditioning environment, it would seem to be the antipragmatist, with his immediate saltatory trueness, independent of work done.
The logical relation stands to the psychological relation between idea and object only as saltatory abstractness stands to ambulatory concreteness.
Transcendentalist theories left it impossible to traverse by finite knowers, and brought an absolute in to perform the saltatory act.
There is no ambulatory process whatsoever, the results of which we may not describe, if we prefer to, in saltatory terms, or represent in static formulation.
Even if saltatory variations do occur, we cannot assume that these have ever led to forms which are capable of survival under the conditions of wild life.
He put forward the hypothesis of saltatory variation because it seemed to him to lighten many of the difficulties of Darwinism--the lack of transition forms, the enormous time required for evolution, and so on.
The idea of saltatory evolution he took from Kölliker, who shortly after the publication of the Origin promulgated in a critical note on Darwinism a sketch of his theory of "heterogeneous generation.
He believed in saltatory evolution, in polyphyletic descent, and in the greater plasticity of the organism in earlier times.
The frog is a most timid, inoffensive creature, saving itself, when pursued, by a series of saltatory feats unparalleled amongst vertebrates.
If, assuming descent, this homology were disturbed, and the systematic relationship done away with, for instance through saltatory evolution, the mere fact of descent would not bring the two species any nearer one another.
Darwin, he says, had already distinguished between variability and mutability; the former manifesting itself in gradual and isolated changes, the latter in saltatory changes on a larger scale.
It is noteworthy that it has generally been the botanists who have especially supported these views of saltatory evolution in a definite direction and according to internal law, who have therefore tended to react most strongly from Darwinism.
So far from feeling past fatigue, the very fatigue of the dance seems refreshing, and many a weary traveller will rue the midnight frolics of his noisy and saltatory fellow-lodgers.
