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Podcast: Evolution Talk
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Punctuated Equilibrium
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:11:11
Publish Date: 2015-06-22 05:00:19
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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.
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