English Dictionary

punctuationism

名詞

不可算名詞

In evolutionary biology, belief that evolution does not proceed at a steady pace, but instead is characterized by periods of stasis, punctuated by brief (within several hundred-thousand years) periods of rapid change.

日本語の意味

進化生物学において、進化が一定のペースではなく、長期間の停滞の後に、数十万年程度と短い期間で急激に進化する現象を指す考え方

Many paleontologists in the mid-20th century adopted punctuationism to explain the sudden appearances of new species in the fossil record.

20世紀半ば、多くの古生物学者は化石記録に見られる新種の突然の出現を説明するために、進化は長い停滞期が続き、その合間に数十万年程度の短い急速な変化が起きるという説を採用した。

意味（1）

In evolutionary biology, belief that evolution does not proceed at a steady pace, but instead is characterized by periods of stasis, punctuated by brief (within several hundred-thousand years) periods of rapid change.

Gould has misled himself by his own rhetorical emphasis on the purely poetic or literary resemblance between punctuationism, on the one hand, and true saltationism on the other.