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Time Frames - The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,444
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Time Frames - The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria (Paperback): Niles Eldredge

Time Frames - The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria (Paperback)

Niles Eldredge

Series: Princeton Legacy Library

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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.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Release date: June 2014
First published: July 2014
Authors: Niles Eldredge
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-60623-1
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
LSN: 0-691-60623-4
Barcode: 9780691606231

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