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Punctuated Equilibrium: Natural History’s Pattern, and History’s Too

Punctuated Equilibrium: Natural History’s Pattern, and History’s Too

by David Tollen | Oct 8, 2013 | Special Historical Studies

Biologists no longer consider evolution a steady or gradual process. New traits often spread suddenly, and a new species may crop up in tens of millennia or less. These “punctuated” or fast evolutions happen when a population faces a new stress or...
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