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Niles Eldredge
Researcher at American Museum of Natural History
Publications - 116
Citations - 12290
Niles Eldredge is an academic researcher from American Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Punctuated equilibrium & Phyletic gradualism. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 116 publications receiving 12019 citations.
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Punctuated equilibria; the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered
Stephen Jay Gould,Niles Eldredge +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that virtually none of the examples brought forward to refute the model of punctuated equilibria can stand as support for phyletic gradualism; many are so weak and ambiguous that they only reflect the persistent bias for gradualism still deeply embedded in paleontological thought.
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Punctuated equilibrium comes of age
Stephen Jay Gould,Niles Eldredge +1 more
TL;DR: Punctuated equilibrium's most important implications remain the recognition of stasis as a meaningful and predominant pattern within the history of species, and the recasting of macroevolution as the differential success of certain species within clades.