Punctuated Equilibrium / / Stephen Jay Gould.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Gould, Stephen Jay,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (406 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674037847; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674037847?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephen Jay Gould.

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.