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Eldredge and Gould
This heuristic was also applied to the theory of punctuated equilibrium proposed by Niles Eldredge and Gould.
Apart from the commonly cited example of water turning to steam with increased temperature, Gould and Eldredge noted another analogy in information theory, " with its jargon of equilibrium, steady state, and homeostasis maintained by negative feedback ," and " extremely rapid transitions that occur with positive feedback.
Lewontin, Gould and Eldredge were thus more interested in dialectical materialism as a heuristic, than a dogmatic form of ' truth ' or a statement of their politics.
His theory of peripatric speciation ( a more precise form of allopatric speciation which he advanced ), based on his work on birds, is still considered a leading mode of speciation, and was the theoretical underpinning for the theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould.
This and other data led Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge to publish the seminal paper on punctuated equilibrium in 1971.
It is a term coined by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge to contrast with their model of punctuated equilibrium, which is gradualist itself, but argues that most evolution is marked by long periods of evolutionary stability ( called stasis ), which is punctuated by rare instances of branching evolution.
In 1972, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould published a landmark paper developing this theory and called it punctuated equilibria.
Although some of the basic workings of the theory were proposed and identified by Mayr in 1954, historians of science generally recognize the 1972 paper by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould as the foundational document of the new paleobiological research program.
Punctuated equilibrium differs from Mayr's hypothesis mainly in that Eldredge and Gould placed considerably greater emphasis on stasis, whereas Mayr was generally concerned with explaining the morphological discontinuity ( or " sudden jumps ") found in the fossil record.
A year before their 1972 Eldredge and Gould paper, Niles Eldredge published a paper in the journal Evolution which suggested that gradual evolution was seldom seen in the fossil record and argued that Ernst Mayr's standard mechanism of allopatric speciation might suggest a possible resolution.
The Eldredge and Gould paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in 1971.
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.
John Wilkins and Gareth Nelson have argued that French architect Pierre Trémaux proposed an " anticipation of the theory of punctuated equilibrium of Gould and Eldredge.
When Eldredge and Gould published their 1972 paper, allopatric speciation was considered the " standard " theory of speciation.
Before Eldredge and Gould alerted their colleagues to the prominence of stasis in the fossil record, most evolutionists considered stasis to be rare or unimportant.
Second, Eldredge and Gould relied upon an entirely different mechanism.
Where Simpson relied upon a synergistic interaction between genetic drift and a shift in the adaptive fitness landscape, Eldredge and Gould relied upon ordinary speciation, particularly Ernst Mayr's concept of allopatric speciation.
" Eldredge and Gould, believing that evolution jumps between stability and relative rapidity, are described as " discrete variable speedists ," and " in this respect they are genuinely radical.
" It is this particular commitment that Eldredge and Gould have aimed to overturn.
John Lyne and Henry Howe, in a more positive evaluation, states that " re-analysis of existing fossil data has shown, to the increasing satisfaction of the paleontological community, that Eldredge and Gould were correct in identifying periods of evolutionary stasis which are interrupted by much shorter periods of evolutionary change.
* Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism-by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould
* Punctuated Equilibria: The Tempo and Mode of Evolution Reconsidered-by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge
* Punctuated Equilibrium Comes of Age-by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge

Eldredge and proposed
* 1972 — Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge proposed an idea they call " punctuated equilibrium ", which states that the fossil record is an accurate depiction of the pace of evolution, with long periods of " stasis " ( little change ) punctuated by brief periods of rapid change and species formation ( within a lineage ).
In 1956, Arnold Eldredge, of General Electric, filed a patent application for an " Object Camouflage Method and Apparatus ," which proposed using a particle accelerator in an aircraft to create a cloud of ionization that would "... refract or absorb incident radar beams.
Niles Eldredge ( born August 25, 1943 ) is an American paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972.
Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould proposed punctuated equilibrium in 1972.

Eldredge and gradualism
In 1972, the notion of gradualism in evolution was challenged by a theory of " punctuated equilibrium " put forward by Gould and Niles Eldredge, proposing evolutionary changes could occur in relatively rapid spurts, when selective pressures were heightened, punctuating long periods of morphological stability, as well-adapted organisms coped successfully in their respective environments.

Eldredge and Charles
* Eldredge, Charles C. Charles Walter Stetson, Color, and Fantasy.
Goodhue was born in Pomfret, Connecticut to Charles Wells Goodhue and his second wife, Helen ( Eldredge ) Grosvenor Goodhue.
Awarded 1990 Charles C. Eldredge Prize.
Charles A. Eldredge ( D )
His first wife, Sara ( 1811 – 1872 ), sister of Nathaniel Parker Willis, and widow of Charles H. Eldredge ( d. 1846 ), attained considerable popularity as a writer under the pen-name Fanny Fern.
In 1876 Parton married Ellen Willis Eldredge, his first wife's daughter by her first husband, Charles Eldredge.
In his book The Blind Watchmaker, Dawkins argues against the idea that Charles Darwin himself was a constant-rate gradualist, as suggested by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould.

Eldredge and Darwin
* Eldredge, N. ( 1995 ) Reinventing Darwin.

Eldredge and is
Phacopid trilobite Eldredgeops rana crassituberculata, the genus is named after Niles Eldredge
He concludes that it is his own vision that genes play a causal role in evolution ", while Gould ( and Eldredge ) " sees genes as passive recorders of what worked better than what ".
They are discovered in each other's arms by Lieutenant Biddle ( John Eldredge ), who is also in love with Kit.
Colona, Eldredge, and Dallas are located in the northern reaches of the county along U. S. Highway 550, though Eldredge and Dallas are located within the valleys of the San Juan Mountains while Colona is in the short stretch of the Uncompahgre Valley within Ouray County.
It is also home to the Detroit Skating Club where a number of world-class figure skaters have trained, including single skaters Tara Lipinski, Todd Eldredge, Alissa Czisny, Adam Rippon, Jeremy Abbott and ice dancers Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat, Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje, Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev, Elizabeth Punsalan / Jerod Swallow.
West Cape May, formerly known as Eldredge, is one of the four jurisdictions that comprise Cape Island in Cape May County.
Kim Sterelny ( 2007 ) cites this rapid natural selection as illustrating an important point about periods of relative stasis in the punctuated equilibrium hypothesis of Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould: " In claiming that species typically undergo no further evolutionary change once speciation is complete, they are not claiming that there is no change at all between one generation and the next.
Before opening night, he insists they marry, but Joyce resists his proposal, hiding the fact she is married to Gordon Heath ( John Eldredge ), an ineffectual but devoted man who was financially ruined by their marriage.
The town is home to the Eldredge Public Library, named for its benefactor and designed by a student of H. H. Richardson.
The theory of punctuated equilibrium developed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge and first presented in 1972 is often mistakenly drawn into the discussion of transitional fossils.
The historian Elizabeth Eldredge challenged Cobbing's thesis on the grounds that there is scant evidence of the resumption of the Portuguese slave trade out of Delagoa Bay before 1823, a finding that undermines Cobbing's thesis that Shaka's early military activities were a response to slave raids.
* Eric Eldredge ( 2008-present )- Based in New York City, New York, he is responsible for programming and live keyboards.
Eldredge is a critic of the gene-centric view of evolution and the notion that evolutionary theory can be held accountable to patterns of historical data.

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