It's phyletic gradualism versus punctuated equilibrium.
N.F.L. strategy evolves through punctuated equilibrium.
According to Gould, the theory of punctuated equilibrium implies that species are individuals, not classes.
He then quotes extensively from some positive things that Rhodes said about punctuated equilibrium.
Orthodox Darwinism may have problems, but punctuated equilibrium is not one of them.
But again, I do not see that species selection follows from either punctuated equilibrium or the individuality of species.
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Gould argues that punctuated equilibrium means that species are individuals and that the individuality of species enables species selection to operate.
Two paleontologists, Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, proposed punctuated equilibrium as a biological explanation of patterns of the fossil record, not to accommodate Ellis's alleged time crunch.
I have no problem with the three factual claims -- of punctuated equilibrium, of the individuality of species, and of species selection.
But punctuated equilibrium made many traditional evolutionists unhappy too; they saw it as evidence of Gould's alleged Marxism - revolution rather than evolution.
