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In English
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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
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 stasis. Now, thirty-five years later, Punctuated Equilibrium offers his only book-length testament on a theory he fiercely promoted, repeatedly refined, and tirelessly defended