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Re: OT: Manned flight
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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 21 May 2002 17:14:57 EDT
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Dave writes:

> Maybe the 'slow but steady march of progress' is false.

That is exactly the argument that Stephen Jay Gould made with Niles Eldredge
25 years ago in their "punctuated equilibrium" paper. Gould and Eldredge
argued that the "slow but steady march of progress," a process that they
called "gradualism", is an equally improper representation of natural
evolutionary invention as well.

Wirt Atmar

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