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| cb12e81 | "I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper...and I clearly related it to paleontology. argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better than others... I noted that you are never going to find evidence of a small local population that changed very rapidly in the fossil record... | charles-darwin darwin eldredge evidence evolution fossil-record gould harvard niles-eldredge science speciational-evolution stephen-jay-gould | Ernst Mayr |