Word: evolutionism
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John E. Cronin, associate professor of Anthropology, said in a statement to reporters. "What we think we've done is to confirm Darwin's and Huxley's views on evolution."
Because of the scarcity of fossil records to prove gradual evolutionary change, many scientists have become convinced that evolution instead occurs in brief spurts, followed by long periods of inactivity.
But Cronin, in collaboration with Noel Boaz, professor of anthropology at New York University. Christopher B. Stringer, professor of paleontology at the British Museum, and Yoel Rak, professor of anatoms and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, has contended that, at least for human evolution, fossil records do in fact indicate...
A Harvard scientist and three other researchers yesterday released evidence supporting the theory of gradual evolution first expounded by Charles Darwin and T.H. Huxley.
The study, featured in the current issue of the British scientific journal. Nature, directly challenges a theory which has become increasingly popular in recent years, asserting that evolution occurs in short, rapid "bursts" of change.