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    Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond
    Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond
    Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond
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    Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond

    By Niles Eldredge

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherColumbia University Press
    Release dateFeb 24, 2015
    ISBN9780231526753
    Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond

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      It was good to read about the development of Punctuated Equilibria from one of the originators (with Steven Jay Gould) of the theory. It was also interesting to see that the basic ideas contained in this "taxic" theory of evolution had its roots in the earlier notebooks of Darwin that predate his Origin of Species. In spite of these pluses, I found the book tedious at times. I got the sense that Eldredge was repeating the same concepts over and over in slightly different words, and sometimes his points, especially about Darwin's early ideas, were confusing.
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      For most of us outside the scientific community, our understanding of evolution begins and ends with Charles Darwin. But, as paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Niles Eldredge shows us in his well-written, well-documented, and extremely interesting book, Eternal Ephemera, Darwin is only part of the story albeit a very important part. Eldredge takes us through two hundred years of evolutionary theory beginning with French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck who, in 1801, first began to ponder the question of how new species developed and continues right up to the present including Eldredge’s own contributions to the theory on punctuated equilibria which he helped to develop along with Stephen Jay Gould. He provides the reader with a view of not only the ephemeral lives of species but of the evolution of the ideas on evolution. Along with the science and the history, Eldredge makes the story more personal by writing about his own journey following Darwin’s footsteps literally through many of the places Darwin visited on the HMS Beagle. Eternal Ephemera provides a highly readable and highly cogent read for anyone who is interested in both the history and the science of evolution written by one of the most important thinkers in the field and I recommend it highly.

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