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> [The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/the-theory-of-punctuated-equilibrium-proposed-by-niles-eldredge-and/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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