Models in Paleobiology Unknown - 1972

San Francisco, CA, USA: Freeman, Cooper & Company, 1972. Hardcover. Good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Previous owner's name marked inside. No Dust Jacket. Pictures available upon request.

San Francisco: Freeman Cooper & Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 250 pages. The first publication of Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould's paper "Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism." This was one of Gould's major contributions to evolutionary theory and it remains a controversial one to this day. Gould and Eldredge propose that evolution is not gradual, rather, they argue, species develop rapidly, followed by long periods without marked change. In his essays, Gould wrote that science was too biased toward definitive results, when the real world and most studies produced no results. "Over and over again in my career I have bashed my head against this wall of nonreporting... When Niles Eldridge and I proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolution we did so to grant stasis in phylogenetic lineages the status of 'worth reporting'-for stasis had previously been ignored as nonevidence of nonevolution, though all paleontologists knew its high… Leer más