The concept of punctuated equilibrium was, to some, a radical new idea when it was first proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972. Now it is widely recognized as a useful model for one ...

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species, according to research from the University of ...

Is evolution like a well-tuned car that purrs down the road at a steady pace? Or is it more like an aging, rattling jalopy that often lurches forward? The aging jalopy is a handy metaphor for the ...

Kudos to all those who participated in, organized or even attended the Enterprise 2.0 conference in drizzly Boston last week. There is a lot to write about. The big ideas that I took away include ...

Pierre Trémaux's 1865 ideas on speciation have been unjustly derided following his acceptance by Marx and rejection by Engels, and almost nobody has read his ideas in a charitable light. Here we offer ...

Stephen Jay Gould, a famed paleontologist and popular writer on evolution, died Monday of cancer at his home in New York City. A pudgy polymath who wrote knowledgeably on topics ranging from biology ...

Punctuated Equilibrium (n) — the hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change The idea of punctuated ...

A ubiquitous mantra of today can be captured in one word—"innovate." From business leaders to homemakers to athletes, the need to innovate and serve the “I want it when I want it” demon seems to know ...

Advertisers and online retailers have been boosted by the pandemic but investors need to put up with the herky-jerky nature of this evolution. Investors who want to make sense of today’s hyperactive ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Is evolution a gradual process or a punctuated one, with rapid evolution taking hold in fits and starts? A new study suggests the latter, as ...