"Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism"
Essay
By: Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould
Date: 1972
Source: Eldredge, Niles, and Stephen Jay Gould. "Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism." Chapter 5 in Models in Paleobiology. Thomas J.M. Schopf, ed. San Francisco: Freeman, Cooper & Company, 1972, 83–84, 96–97.
About the Author: Niles Eldredge (1943–) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received a Ph.D. in geology from Columbia University in 1969. From 1969 to 1974, he was assistant curator of invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He was promoted to associate curator in 1974 and curator in 1979. He has taught as an adjunct at City University of New York and Columbia University.
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) was born in New York City and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1967. That year he joined the faculty at Harvard University,...
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