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discontinuous variation

noun

Biology.
  1. variation in phenotypic traits in which types are grouped into discrete categories with few or no intermediate phenotypes. Compare continuous variation.


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On the basis of the discontinuous variation in several characters which correlate with the disjunct distribution of the two populations, two subspecies of Hyla staufferi are recognized.

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Suppose that evolution "in the open" had taken place in the same way, by means of discontinuous variation.

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It is a plausible view that the transition from the humanoid to the human was effected by a discontinuous variation of considerable magnitude, what is nowadays called a mutation, and that it had mainly to do with the brain and the vocal organs.

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I think I have demolished "discontinuous variation" as having any but the most subordinate part in evolution of species.

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The next letter relates to the rising school of biologists who, in opposition to Darwin's views, held that species might arise by what was at the time termed "discontinuous variation."

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