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- From: Wesley.R..Elsberry@f303.n347.z1.fidonet.org (Wesley R. Elsberry)
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 23:37:58 PDT
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- In a msg on <Dec 10 10:06>, Laurie Appleton of 3:640/316.1 writes:
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- LA> Your message is a little puzzling in some ways. Have you
- LA> heard (or learned) of the famous Prof. Stephen Jay Gould? In
- LA> any case he said the following;
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- "Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is
- infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists -- whether
- through design or stupidity, I do not know -- as admitting that the
- fossil record includes no transitional forms. The punctuations
- occur at the level of species; directional trends (on the staircase
- model) are rife at the higher level of transitions within major groups."
-
- From S.J. Gould, "Evolution as fact and theory", in Science And Creationism, Ed.: A. Montagu, 1984.
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- References for punctuated equilibrium drawn from Marty Leipzig's excellent 15,000+ entry keyworded bibliography:
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- Keywords: EQUILIBRIUM PUNCTUATED
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- Eldridge, N., 1985, Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the
- Theory of Punctuated Equilibria: New York, Simon and Schuster.
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- Eldridge, N., and Gould, S. J., 1972, Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to
- Phyletic Gradualism, {iin} Schopf, T. M., ed., Models in Paleobiology: San
- Francisco, Freeman, Cooper, & Co., p. 82-115; 250 pp.
-
- ---, 1972, Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism, {iin}
- Eldridge, N., ed., Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and
- the Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium (1985): New York, Simon and Schuster,
- p. 193-223.
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- Gould, S. J., 1984, Toward the Vindication of Punctuational Change, {iin}
- Berggren, W. A., and Van Couvering, J. A., eds., Catastrophes and Earth
- History: The New Uniformitarianism: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton
- University Press, p. 9-34.
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- Gould, S. J., and Eldridge, N., 1977, Punctuated Equilibria: The Tempo and Mode
- of Evolution Reconsidered: Paleobiology, v. 3, p. 115-151.
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- Sonleitner, F. J., 1987, The Origin of Species by Punctuated Equilibria:
- Creation/Evolution, v. 20, p. 24-30.
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- Stanley, S. M., 1978, Chronospecies' longevities, the origin of genera, and the
- punctuational model of evolution: Paleobiology, v. 4, p. 26-40.
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- Keywords: GRADUALISM PUNCTUATED
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- Malmgren, B. A., Berggren, W. A., and Lohmann, G. P., 1984, Species formation
- through punctuated gradualism in planktonic foraminifera: Science, p. 317-
- 319.
-
-
- [Extracted using the FAQ_BASE utilities, FAQB104.LZH, from CNS.]
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