Niles Eldredge

Niles Eldredge ( born August 25, 1943) is an American paleontologist. Together with Stephen Jay Gould he introduced in 1972, the theory of punctuated equilibrium (English punctuated equilibrium ) for discussion, a variant of the theory of evolution, which assumes that the evolution of species not continuous runs, but long in an alternating phases of stability with short rapid development thrusts.

Eldredge studied anthropology at Columbia University in New York, where he received his doctorate in 1969. Even during the period of study researched Eldredge at the American Museum of Natural History, where he is now Curator of the Department of Invertebrates. In the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York Eldredge is an associate professor of paleontology. Eldredge's specialty is the evolution of Phacopid, an order of trilobites of the middle Paleozoic.

In 1979 he was awarded the Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society.

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