natura non facit saltum

American  

[nah-too-rah nohn fah-kit sahl-toom, nuh-toor-uh non fey-sit sal-tuhm, -tyoor-] / nɑˈtu rɑ noʊn ˈfɑ kɪt ˈsɑl tʊm, nəˈtʊər ə nɒn ˈfeɪ sɪt ˈsæl təm, -ˈtyʊər- /

Latin.

1. nature makes no leap.

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Example Sentences

The advent of flowering plants suggested evolution could be both rapid and abrupt, in direct contradiction to an essential element of natural selection, natura non facit saltum - nature makes no leap.

From BBC

The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly....

From Project Gutenberg

Natura non facit saltum.—However strongly man may develop upwards and seem to leap from one contradiction to another, a close observation will reveal the dovetails where the new building grows out of the old.

From Project Gutenberg

It is perhaps to escape the necessity of a similar inference that Mr. Darwin so frequently quotes the proverb Natura non facit saltum; but, if so, he leans on a broken reed—on a bit of proverbial philosophy as weak as the weakest of Mr. Tupper's.

From Project Gutenberg

Difficulties on the theory of descent with modification—Transitions—Absence or rarity of transitional varieties—Transitions in habits of life—Diversified habits in the same species—Species with habits widely different from those of their allies—Organs of extreme perfection—Means of transition—Cases of difficulty—Natura non facit saltum—Organs of small importance—Organs not in all cases absolutely perfect—The law of Unity of Type and of the Conditions of Existence embraced by the theory of Natural Selection.

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