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- Natura_non_facit_saltus abstract "Natura non facit saltus (Latin for \"nature does not make jumps\") has been an important principle of natural philosophy. It appears as an axiom in the works of Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays, IV, 16: \"la nature ne fait jamais des sauts\"), one of the inventors of the infinitesimal calculus (see Law of Continuity). It is also an essential element of Charles Darwin's treatment of natural selection in his Origin of Species. The phrase comes from Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica.The principle expresses the idea that natural things and properties change gradually, rather than suddenly. In a mathematical context, this allows one to assume that the solutions of the governing equations are continuous, and also does not preclude their being differentiable (differentiability implies continuity). Modern day quantum mechanics is sometimes seen as violating the principle, with its idea of a quantum leap. Erwin Schrödinger in his objections to quantum jumps supported the principle, and initially developed his wave mechanics in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to remove these jumps. In the biological context, the principle was used by Charles Darwin and others to defend the evolutionary postulate that all species develop from earlier species through gradual and minute changes rather than through the sudden emergence of new forms. Modern evolutionary biology has terminology suggesting both continuous change, such as genetic drift, and discontinuous variation, such as mutation. However, as the basic structure of DNA is discrete, nature is now widely understood to make jumps at the biological level, if only on a very small scale.Natura non facit saltum is the epigraph of Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics. An admirer of Herbert Spencer, Marshall intended the epigraph both to proclaim his adherence to evolutionary thought and to justify his use of differential calculus as an analytical tool—a use seen in all the seminal thinkers of neoclassical economics.The spelling variation (saltus vs. saltum) displays a mere numeral difference; because the Latin noun saltus, meaning \"leap\", belongs to the 4th declension; so its singular accusative is saltum (leap), while the plural is saltus (leaps).".
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- Natura_non_facit_saltus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nature never works by rapid jumps".
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- Natura_non_facit_saltus comment "Natura non facit saltus (Latin for \"nature does not make jumps\") has been an important principle of natural philosophy. It appears as an axiom in the works of Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays, IV, 16: \"la nature ne fait jamais des sauts\"), one of the inventors of the infinitesimal calculus (see Law of Continuity). It is also an essential element of Charles Darwin's treatment of natural selection in his Origin of Species.".
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