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 ...

History is often shaped by moments of profound change—inflection points that redefine what’s possible, much like cosmic asteroids that strike the planet and alter the course of evolution. Today, we ...

If you compare a modern cotton crop with one grown 1,600 years ago, the DNA of the two look almost nothing alike. It’s the first known example in domesticated crops of a supercharged evolutionary ...

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 ...

"Originally published as the central chapter of Gould's masterwork, The structure of evolutionary theory"--P. [4] of cover. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac ...

Mammal species diversified more rapidly early in their history – peaking roughly 66 million years ago – before a long-term decline in diversification punctuated by diminishing bursts of evolutionary ...

The 'self-referential' character of evolutionary process noted by Goldenfeld and Woese (2010) can be restated through a 'language' model in which genes, gene expression, and environment are ...

Overcoming previous technical challenges with single-cell DNA (scDNA) sequencing, a group led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has developed a novel method for scDNA ...