Zach B. Hancock | Punctuated Equilibrium: It's Not What You Think @talkpopgen | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Few concepts in the history of evolutionary biology are as misunderstood and misapplied as Gould and Eldredge's theory of punctuated equilibrium. In this video, I explain what it meant originally, the claims that it made, and ultimately why it's rejected today.

Further reading:
See our paper on this topic that appeared in the 75th Anniversary of the journal Evolution: academic.oup.com/evolut/article/75/6/1244/6881942
Which was blogged about by Jerry Coyne!: whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/06/13/punctuated-equilibrium-is-dead-long-live-the-modern-synthesis

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