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Complete correlation Walter and sutton:
Paired chromosomes: : : mutation theory

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Mutation theory, idea that new species are formed from the sudden and unexpected emergence of alterations in their defining traits. Advanced at the beginning of the 20th century by Dutch botanist and geneticist Hugo de Vries in his Die Mutationstheorie (1901–03; The Mutation Theory), mutation theory joined two seemingly opposed traditions of evolutionary thought. First, its practitioners, often referred to as mutationists, accepted the primary contention of saltationist theory, which argued that new species are produced rapidly through discontinuous transformations. Saltationist theory contradicted Darwinism, which held that species evolved through the gradual accumulation of variation over vast epochs. Second, mutationists tended to hold the strict Darwinian line that all differentiation is for the good of the species, which differed from the saltationist idea that some organismic variations are inherently undesirable. The second argument was premised on the belief that more variation provided better opportunities for adaptation to a variable environment. The dovetailing of seemingly antithetical traditions made mutation theory one of the vanguard movements in early 20th-century evolutionary and genetic theory.