IMPACTTECTONICS.ORG BLOG Rev. 2022-12-21

Gregory Charles Herman, PhD Flemington, New Jersey, USA

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Stephen Jay Gould's and Nile Eldredge's remarkable theory of punctuated equilibrium; that biological evolution on Earth is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change, is a more appropriate theoretical model with regard to Earthly tectonics than uniformitarianism, the current guiding principle of geology.