Punctuated equilibrium
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title:
Punctuated equilibrium
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In evolutionary biology, punctuated equilibrium is a theory that proposes that once a species appears in the fossil record, the population will become stable, showing little evolutionary change for most of its geological history. This state of little or no morphological change is called stasis. When significant evolutionary change occurs, the theory proposes that it is generally restricted to rare and geologically rapid events of branching speciation called cladogenesis. Cladogenesis is the proc
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Theory in evolutionary biology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
date created:
2001-03-12T01:12:55Z
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2024-09-12T00:29:06Z
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