PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM COMES OF AGE

被引:579
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作者
GOULD, SJ [1 ]
ELDREDGE, N [1 ]
机构
[1] AMER MUSEUM NAT HIST, DEPT INVERTEBRATES, NEW YORK, NY 10024 USA
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D O I
10.1038/366223a0
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
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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页码:223 / 227
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