The word "allopatric" refers to a biological process where different populations of a species are geographically isolated from each other, leading to the development of distinct genetic traits. The antonym of "allopatric" is "sympatric," which refers to the opposite scenario, where different populations of a species occupy the same geographic space but develop different genetic characteristics due to other factors such as selection pressures, genetic drift, or hybridization. The concept of sympatry is an important aspect of evolutionary biology and can provide insights into the mechanisms of speciation and the maintenance of genetic diversity within a species.

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• I did speak extensively — often quite critically — about the reviled work of Richard Goldschmidt, particularly about aspects of his thought that might merit a rehearing. This material has often been confused with punctuated equlibrium by people who miss the crucial issue of scaling, and therefore regard all statements about rapidity at any level as necessarily unitary, and necessarily flowing from punctuated equilibrium. In fact, as the long treatment in Chapter 5 of this book should make clear, my interest in Goldschmidt resides in issues bearing little relationship with punctuated equilibrium, but invested instead in developmental questions that prompted my first book, . The two subjects, after all, are quite separate, and rooted in different scales of rapidity — hopeful monsters in genuine saltation, and punctuated equilibrium in macroevolutionary punctuation (produced by ordinary allopatric speciation).

  Stephen Jay Gould
• Finally, the claim that we equated punctuated equilibrium with saltation makes no sense within the logical structure of our theory — so, unless we are fools, how could we ever have asserted such a proposition? Our theory holds, as a defining statement, that ordinary allopatric speciation, unfolding gradually at microevolutionary scales, translates to punctuation in geological time.

  Stephen Jay Gould

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