The intense controversies that surrounded the youth of punctuated equilibrium have helped it mature to a useful extension of evolutionary theory. As a complement to phyletic gradualism, its most important implications remain the recognition of stasis as a meaningful and predominant pattern within the history of species, and in the recasting of macroevolution as the differential success of certain species (and their descendants) within clades.
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Sveuciliste Zagrebu, Fak Politickih Znanosti, Lepusiceva 6, Zagreb 10000, CroatiaSveuciliste Zagrebu, Fak Politickih Znanosti, Lepusiceva 6, Zagreb 10000, Croatia