Tag: punctuated equilibrium
Can Materialistic Models Accommodate the Scientific Data?
Would you believe someone who claimed that fairies and leprechauns were caught on video, but they are too small or too fast to be seen?
Lukas Ruegger: Three Problems with Punctuated Equilibrium
By the time of his death, Stephen Jay Gould had come full circle, in effect, returning to traditional Darwinism.
Eugenie Scott Gets Intelligent Design Backwards
This punctuated, even saltational increase in hominid skull sizes over time continues to be recognized in the literature.
Yes, the Punctuated Equilibrium Model Was Developed to Explain the Lack of Transitional Fossils
Why would Eldredge and Gould propose such a model? Because they knew the data showed that potential transitional fossils are an extreme rarity.
Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory
The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning.