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Simpson argued that the Microevolution of Population Genetics was sufficient in itself to explain the patterns of Macroevolution observed by Paleontology . Simpson also highlighted the distinction between tempo and mode. "Tempo" encompasses "evolutionary rates . . . their acceleration and deceleration, the conditions of exceptionally slow or rapid evolutions, and phenomena suggestive of inertia and momentum." While "mode" embraces "the study of the way, manner, or pattern of evolution, a study in which tempo is a basic factor, but which embraces considerably more than tempo."

Simpson's ''Tempo and Mode'' attempted to draw out several distinct generalizations:
  • That evolution's tempo can impart information about its mode.

  • That multiple tempos can be found in the fossil record (bradytelic, tachytelic, horotelic).

  • That the facts of paleontology are consistent with the Genetical Theory Of Natural Selection . Moreover, that theories such as Orthogenesis , Lamarckism , mutation pressures, and Macromutations are either false or play little to no role.

  • Most evolution—"nine-tenths"—occurs by the steady phyletic transformation of whole lineages (anagenesis). In contrast to Ernst Mayr's interpretation of speciation by splitting, particularly Parapatric and Allopatric speciation.

  • The lack of evidence for evolutionary transitions in the fossil record is best accounted for, first, by the poorness of the geological record, and secondly as a consequence of Quantum Evolution (which is responsible for "the origin taxonomic units of relatively high rank, such as families, orders, and classes."). Quantum evolution built upon Sewall Wright's theory of Random Genetic Drift .


Fifty years after its publication, the and Francisco J. Ayala . It includes contributions by Ayala, Stephen Jay Gould , and W. Ford Doolittle.


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