Punctuated Equilibrium / Stephen Jay Gould.
In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the controversial idea that the majority of species originates in geological moments (punctuations) and persists in s...
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[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 WHAT EVERY PALEONTOLOGIST KNOWS
- 2 THE PRIMARY CLAIMS OF PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM
- 3 THE SCIENTIFIC DEBATE ON PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM: CRITIQUES AND RESPONSES
- 4 SOURCES OF DATA FOR TESTING PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM
- 5 THE BROADER IMPLICATIONS OF PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM FOR EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND GENERAL NOTIONS OF CHANGE
- APPENDIX: A LARGELY SOCIOLOGICAL (AND FULLY PARTISAN) HISTORY OF THE IMPACT AND CRITIQUE OF PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- INDEX.