On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
Anthony Docimo wrote:Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 11:51:00 -0500From: davidpeters@att.net To: habib@jhmi.edu; dinosaur@usc.edu Subject: Leaping launching pterosaurs query Hypothetically, was wondering if we amputated the wing fingers, would we get a pterosaur able to flee or attack by bounds using principally the forelimb launch technique?that's either a large mouthful of chocolate wing, or one of Gould's "hopeful monsters".Richard Goldschmidt, not Gould. Many people confuse Goldschmidt's concept of "hopeful monsters" (instantaneous evolution from bizarre offspring)
AIR Aaron Filler proposes something like that in regards to bipedality and morotopithecus. I don't know if that qualifies as bizarre, tho.
with punctuated equilibrium (in which the evolutionary change in a lineage is restricted to punctuation events which are <10% the total species duration, but are still take thousands or more years).