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According to Gould " the ideas came mostly from Niles, with yours truly acting as a sounding board and eventual scribe.

I coined the term punctuated equilibrium and wrote most of our 1972 paper, but Niles is the proper first author in our pairing of Eldredge and Gould.

" Eldredge in his book Time Frames recalls that the pair " after much discussion, each wrote roughly half.

Some of the parts that would seem obviously the work of one of us were actually first penned by the other — I remember for example, writing the section on Gould's snails.

Other parts are harder to reconstruct.

Gould edited the entire manuscript for better consistency.

We sent it in, and Schopf reacted strongly against it — thus signaling the tenor of the reaction it has engendered, though for shifting reasons, down to the present day.