Transmutation of species

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Transmutation of species is the altering of one species into another. Transmutation can occur via degeneration (i.e., migration and changes in climate). Modern evolutionary theory accounts for this using evolutionary processes, however before the establishment of modern evolutionary biology, it was recognised by some that species changed.

Theories of Evolution

Based on Essentialism: Transmutationism (saltationism) Transformationism Orthogenesis Lamarckism Neo-Lamarckism Based on Population biology: Darwinian evolution

[edit] See also

• Chronospecies
• Erasmus Darwin
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

[edit] Further reading

• Darwin's Precursors and Influences
• The lead up to The Origins of Species