Tag: Niles Eldredge
Punctuated Equilibria Is Back, but Still Magical
Calling it by a new name doesn’t change the essence of a theory relying on chance.
Latest Homo naledi Bones Are Younger than Expected
In 1982, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall noted that it is a “myth that the evolutionary histories of living beings are essentially a matter of discovery.”