Gould has misled himself by his own rhetorical emphasis on the purely poetic or literary resemblance between punctuationism, on the one hand, and true saltationism on the other.

Only the geniuses then had all the women. This was the flora of sex civilization, or sexdom. Sexdom was so strong, a stigma that lasted over time, which supports the long-running dispute about whether humans evolved from a single species.

Maury rocked his chair onto its back legs, rubbed his shirted stomach, grinned.

“And will my whiskers curl so tight? My cheeks grow smug and muttony? My face become so red and white? My coat so blue and buttony?