[nordsieck]

I'd suggest to you that incremental improvement is generally more important than revolutionary improvement, even if it's distinctly less sexy.

[scurvy]

That's OK. It just doesn't belong in Silicon Valley. Ship it out to XYZ Valley/Alley/Prairie.

I'm also a fan of punctuated equilibrium and cladogenesis as opposed to evolution over millenia. But maybe that's just me.