9780691024356-0691024359-Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria (Princeton Legacy Library, 1001)

Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria (Princeton Legacy Library, 1001)

ISBN-13: 9780691024356
ISBN-10: 0691024359
Edition: 1st pb
Author: Niles Eldredge
Publication date: 1989
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback 240 pages
Category: Evolution
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ISBN-13: 9780691024356
ISBN-10: 0691024359
Edition: 1st pb
Author: Niles Eldredge
Publication date: 1989
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback 240 pages
Category: Evolution

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Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria (Princeton Legacy Library, 1001) (ISBN-13: 9780691024356 and ISBN-10: 0691024359), written by authors Niles Eldredge, was published by Princeton University Press in 1989. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Evolution books. You can easily purchase or rent Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria (Princeton Legacy Library, 1001) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Evolution books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.38.

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Scientists have recently begun to question one of the pillars of modern thought--Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Certainly evolution occurs; but if it is a slow, continuous process by which one species gradually modifies itself into a new one, as Darwin believed, why are there so many missing links in the fossil records? Two eminent scientists, Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, startled the world by challenging Darwin's cherished beliefs proposing instead that once a species has evolved it rarely undergoes change, and that the evolution of new species occurs only periodically, in relatively rapid spurts. In Time Frames Niles Eldredge explains how his own work with trilobite fossils led him to this unexpected conclusion, and describes the fascinating development of the new theory of punctuated equilibria.

Originally published in 1989.

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