punctuated equilibrium
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The students suggested these factors: natural selection, morphological mutations, punctuated equilibrium and allopatric speciation.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2022
When this happens, we call it punctuated equilibrium.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
One of the findings that stands out, he says, is that pop music shows a pattern from biological evolution known as punctuated equilibrium, in which periods of gradual change are separated by explosions of complexity.
From Science Magazine ● May 5, 2015
In the punctuated equilibrium example, as in the graduated speciation example, the founder species diverges into one species with a hooked break and another with a straight beak.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The term punctuated equilibrium refers to the fact that fossil records have shown that, in evolution, there have been periods of relative stasis or equilibrium punctuated by periods of very rapid change.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2014
