text: Connie Gersick applied this theory to six independent fields, originating its application to organizational transformations.
full_question: Connie Gersick applied this theory to six independent fields, originating its application to organizational transformations. Richard Dawkins discussed versions of this theory by analyzing the journey of the Israelites across the desert in the ninth chapter of The Blind Watchmaker. This theory builds upon Ernst Mayr’s theories of speciation, argues that periods of cladogenesis alternate with periods of stasis, and is contrasted with phyletic gradualism. Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould proposed, for 10 points, what theory predicting that evolution usually proceeds slowly but is interspersed by short bursts of rapid change?
first_sentence: Connie Gersick applied this theory to six independent fields, originating its application to organizational transformations.