Writing tagged: ‘punctuated equilibrium’
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Newsletter No. 22: ‘I ought to stick to Orchids’
Darwin on Abraham Lincoln • Darwin’s photograph collection • Alfred Russel Wallace • neural fossils • Punctuated Equilibrium at 50 • randomness in evolution • sexual selection and speciation • pollen wars • book update • and more…
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The surprise punctuationist
On how Charles Darwin believed that evolution did not have to occur at a constant rate.
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Remind you of anything?
Languages evolve in sudden leaps, not creeps.
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Gould would have loved this
Evolutionary ‘big bang’ gave rise to flowering plants.
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Triassic Explosion
Fossil research suggests ‘mass dying’ triggered teeming oceans.