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Punctuated Equilibrium
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Length:
11 minutes
Released:
Jun 22, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldridge published a paper that immediately went viral among biologists. Gould and Eldridge pointed out, using the fossil record as evidence, that evolution by natural selection worked in a series of starts and stops. There were periods of stasis where no changes occurred. They called this theory Punctuated Equilibrium.
Released:
Jun 22, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Darwin Before the Beagle: Charles Darwin will be forever known as the man who came up with the brilliant, and magnificent, idea that life evolved on this planet from a common ancestor and that the driver, or the mechanism behind this, is natural selection. by Evolution Talk