Richard Goldschmidt
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Richard Goldschmidt (1878 â 1958) was an American geneticist who emigrated from Germany. Goldschmidt advanced a pseudoscientific evolutionary hypothesis where macroevolution was postulated to occur through macromutations. Goldshcmidt's evolutionary hypothesis is often popularly referred to as the "Hopeful Monster" hypothesis.