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Niles Eldredge

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1) Eternal ephemera: adaptation and the origin of species, from the nineteenth century through punctuated equilibria and beyond

Author

Eldredge, Niles

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Pub. Date

[2015]

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One of evolution's fundamental questions is how the skein of life on Earth remains unbroken yet is constantly renewed by new species. What accounts for the scientific paradox that all organisms and species are ephemeral, and yet life endures, yielding more advanced players in nature's eternal play? In this riveting work, renowned scientist Niles Eldredge presents a magisterial account of leading thinkers as they wrestle with this paradox over a span...

2) Unfinished synthesis: biological hierarchies and modern evolutionary thought

Author

Eldredge, Niles

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

1985

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'Eldredge - the invertebrate palaeontologist renowned for his role in developing the theory of punctuated equilibria and the epistemological approach to phylogenetic pattern recognition known as cladistics - now gives us ... one of the more important challenges to the neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis ... This is a must for anyone, of any persuasion, interested in evolutionary theory.' Science Books and Films Review Published: September 2015. In...