Reflections on punctuated equilibria

Abstract

It is a pleasure to be invited to contribute to the celebration of the publication of “punctuated equilibria” (“punk eek”) 50 years ago—the canonical version I did with Steve Gould (Eldredge and Gould 1972) at the behest of Tom Schopf for his visionary project to inject more thought, more interpretation and theory, into the working lives of paleontologists.