The concept of punctuated equilibrium was, to some, a radical new idea when it was first proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972. Now it is widely recognized as a useful model for one ...

The idea of fast-track evolution during speciation has been controversial. Critics of the theory of punctuated equilibrium found it difficult to believe that the evolutionary processes leading to new ...

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species, according to research from the University of ...

A common mantra of the life sciences industry can be captured in a one word—innovate. To survive in today's hostile world, a company must out-think and out-innovate the competition. And out of that ...

I WELL remember the summer I read The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. It was 2002, Stephen Jay Gould had just died, but he had left behind this magnum opus, a substantial work that summarised and ...