I don't know about monsters -- the chances of that many genes changing all at once is pretty slim. The model that makes sense to me is gradual cumulative change which is continuously vectored toward workability by ordinary survival pressures. I'd like to see an explication of this notion of sudden large change speciation.


Sudden is a relative term in this context. Based on the fossil record, which does not support continuous change, the prevailing opinion is that species change in relatively short periods of time and then remain stable for relatively long periods of time. Short means tens to hundreds of thousands of years while long means millions to tens of millions of years.

Bev and Jerry