EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION 



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When discontinuous variation proceeds along a definite 

 line through several successive generations, each step being 

 an intensification of the preceding one, it is designated 

 " or tho genetic saltation 11 (Fig. 395). 



451. Illustration of the Pendulum. The difference be- 

 tween discontinuous and fluctuating variation may be 



xtre/ne 



\. ..J-L fluciuath 

 Extreme. 



Mean 



FIG. 396. Diagram to illustrate the difference between fluctuating 

 variation and mutation; O, original point of suspension; M, new point of 

 suspension after the mutation has occurred. 



aptly illustrated by a swinging pendulum (Fig. 396). The 

 vertical position, assumed when at rest, is the mean of all 

 positions that may be assumed as the pendulum swings; 



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