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Some believe the theory strengthens Aggassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould's and Niles Eldridge's theory of "punctuated equilibrium," which holds that evolution proceeds in bursts rather than gradual increments...
...time for change--if it's change you want--since Dean Rosovsky has already cleared the deck of some difficult issues. The hoopla over the Core Curriculum has finally calmed down, and the program is firmly in place. After years of souring deficits, the Faculty budget is back to equilibrium and seems to have weathered the worst of this decade's inflation. During his last year in office, Rosovsky turned attention to a number of important long-range issues that you would be wise to pursue vigorously--undergraduate teaching, the status of junior faculty, and computers...
...guest whose invitation to dinner it would be too awkward to withdraw. Some prominent Europeans purport to see in the missiles' presence a hidden American design to confine a nuclear war to Europe. Others treat them as one of those peculiar American aberrations that periodically upset the alliance's equilibrium. Too few recognize, and even fewer are willing to admit, that in fact the missiles link the strategic nuclear defense of Europe and the U.S. Weapons capable of reaching Soviet territory stake the American homeland to the defense of Europe; they do not enable America to remain immune...
...Usually the articles in magazines oversimplify my theories," Gould says. "Often they write about punctuated equilibrium or adaptation as if there were only two sides, as if I'm on one, unorthodox side and everybody else is on the other...
Gould shares the credit for punctuated equilibrium with Niles Eldredge, a paleontologist at New York's Museum of Natural History...