saltation

Saltation is the process by which a new genome, perhaps populated with a base structure of Genes, is assigned a set of values which the new genome does not gain by inheritance, but by the creation of a genome at random: the law of higgledy-piggledy.

Blind Watchmaker

In Blind Watchmaker, DeliverSaltation is one Pascal procedure which assigns random (though reasonable) values to a newly created genome.