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 ...

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Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins – and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage – according to a new University of Cambridge study ...

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A new book of natural history essays co-written by a University of Kansas paleontologist today was published by Columbia University Press. Bruce Lieberman, Dean’s Professor of Evolutionary Biology and ...

Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.