Sentence examples for saltation from inspiring English sources

But instead of linking these things to natural selection, they came up with the idea of "saltation"—in other words, sudden mutational shifts from one well-adapted species to another.

The locomotor pattern of saltation (hopping) is confined mainly to kangaroos, anurans (tailless amphibians), rabbits, and some groups of rodents in the vertebrates and to a number of insect families in the arthropods.

The major cause of wind erosion is the jumping motion of the smaller soil particles, a process called saltation.

The mechanics of arboreal leaping do not differ from those of terrestrial saltation; the upward thrust in both is produced by the rapid, simultaneous extension of the hind legs.

Terrestrial locomotion, any of several forms of animal movement such as walking and running, jumping (saltation), and crawling.

Evolution by saltation seems to be the rule in the microbial world, and the doctrine of common descent is questioned.