Macroevolution: Pattern and Process

STANLEY, Steven M.

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ISBN 10: 0716710927 ISBN 13: 9780716710929

Published by W. H. Freeman and Company, 1979

Language: English

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Macroevolution: Pattern and Process

Publisher

W. H. Freeman and Company

Publication Date

1979

Language

English

ISBN 10

0716710927

ISBN 13

9780716710929

Binding

HARDCOVER

Edition

1st edition.

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Good+

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In Macroevolution, Steven Stanley addresses, from a paleobiologist's perspective, the question of whether punctuated equilibria or gradualism offers the best account of the history of life. Punctuated equilibria, a view popularized by Stephen Jay Gould among others, holds that species remain evolutionarily static for long periods of time and undergo substantial genetic changes and develop new, primarily adaptive, strategies during speciation. In contrast, gradualism views large-scale changes as the result of continual and successive small-scale changes. Coming down on the side of those who favor the model of punctuated equilibria, Stanley argues that only "quantum speciation" (speciation that is rapid and radically divergent) can explain the story of life revealed in the fossil record; macroevolutionary trends, he contends, can be explained by selection among species and, to a lesser extent, by phylogenetic drift and directed speciation.

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A paleontologist presents new evidence in favor the evolution by "punctuated equilibria."

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