10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUNCTUATIONIST»
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This way of thinking about species and speciation is intimately tied to a
punctuationist view of the evolutionary process (Gould 1987, 1988; Eldredge and
Tattersall 1982). In the punctuationist model, speciation occurs in small
populations that ...
Matt Cartmill, Fred H. Smith,
2011
2
Evolution, Animal 'rights,' and the Environment
The punctuationist focuses on the "unchanging status" of living things, with the
consequence that his attention is turned away from the individual organism and
riveted on the class or species that survives. The punctuationist, Dawkins
charges, ...
3
The Dynamic Society: The Sources of Global Change
They fail to mention that the punctuationist push is really an attempt, either
conscious or not, to replace the economic explanation in Darwin's theory of
evolution with a purely physical explanation. Also what these critics miss is that
the ...
4
The Dynamic Society: Exploring the Sources of Global Change
They fail to mention that the punctuationist push is really an attempr, either
conscious or not, to replace the economic explanation in Datwin's theory of
evolution with a purely physical explanation. Also what these ctitics miss is that
the ...
Graeme Donald Snooks,
1996
Despite punctuationist arguments, macroevolutionary changes are still quite
compatible with what we know of population genetics. From a Neo-Darwinian as
well as punctuationist view, the rate of evolution in a new popula- tional offshoot
may ...
Monroe W. Strickberger,
2005
Since most of the life of a species,onthe punctuationist view, isspentin
unchanging stasis, and sincea specieshasa discrete beginning andend,
itfollowsthat, toa punctuationist, a species canbesaidtohave adefinite,
measurable 'lifespan'.
6 [T]he punctuationists . . . make a big point of treating the species' as a real '
entity'. To a non-punctuationist, 'the species' is definable only because the
awkward intermediates are dead. An extreme anti-punctuationist, taking a long
view of the ...
8
Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and ...
On the other, the ability of humans to consciously decide and act allows for the
discontinuous or punctuationist evolution of human society as revolutionary
transformations occur, in this case a dialectical “transformation of quantity into
quality.
9
Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other ...
With their abrupt but progressive appearances in the fossil record, the stages of
whale and hominid evolution fit both the gradualist and the punctuationist
paradigms. The prosimian to ape transition features no obvious scenarios.
Prosimi- ans ...
David Rains Wallace,
2004
10
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Now, Dawkins's point in setting up this dummy view is to demonstrate the lack of
novelty of the punctuationist (“fits and starts”) approach. Next, he continues (still
on p. 223): suppose that eloquent young historians burst upon the scene. Biblical
...
Brian Joseph, Richard Janda,
2008