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🤣 ‘Some critics jokingly referred to the theory of punctuated equilibrium as "evolution by jerks", which reportedly prompted punctuationists to describe phyletic gradualism as "evolution by creeps."’
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What do you call the period of stasis in a punctuated equilibrium where the biology of an ecosystem is stable? I guess it’s the natural equivalent of a technological era. Like steam, electricity, etc.