Applying the term “evolution” to the purposeful activities of farmers in selective breeding to improve quality and yield is specious and dishonest.
Punctuated evolution is a frankly political term — SJ Gould originated the term “punctuated equilibria” to describe long periods of stasis and the apparent sudden changes to whole taxa as evidenced in the fossil record, coining the term “diastrophe” instead of just using catastrophe. The diastrophe is the punctuation mark in the equilibria.
You mean like farmers saving the best looking seeds from this years crop to plant next year? Isn’t that just quicker natural selection? I’m hoping the white tail deer evolve into a species that learns how to avoid getting hit by vehicles.