Daniel Dennett, once again, criticizes this idea by claiming that it can be accommodated by merely a change of scale.
Daniel Dennett, once again, criticizes this idea by claiming that it can be accommodated by merely a change of scale. It might be partially caused by "habitat tracking," where an organism runs away from a changing environment. Its tenets include the idea that cladogenesis, or branching, dominates over anagenesis. It also argues that peripatric speciation is much more common than allopatric speciation. Dawkins has argued that its alternative, so called "phyletic gradualism", is a straw man that even Darwin did not endorse. FTP, identify this theory put forth by Eldridge and Gould, which claims that new species form in short rapid bursts in between periods of stasis.
Daniel Dennett, once again, criticizes this idea by claiming that it can be accommodated by merely a change of scale.
{punctuated equilbrium}