[js1138]

So are you saying that Eldredge and Tattersall did not properly understand Darwin’s predictions?

I haven't read Eldridge's specific response to being mischaracterized, but I have read Gould's. He thought people who interpreted punctuated equilibrium as conflicting with Darwin were liars or idiots.

[GodGunsGuts]

==He thought people who interpreted punctuated equilibrium as conflicting with Darwin were liars or idiots.

That’s because he was Chicken. Nowhere in Darwin’s theory of evolution do you find anything remotely resembling Punctuated Equilibrium.

[editor-surveyor]

"I haven't read Eldridge's specific response to being mischaracterized, but I have read Gould's. He thought people who interpreted punctuated equilibrium as conflicting with Darwin were liars or idiots."

You're doing a marvelous job of making yourself look like an idiot here.

Read Gould's Wonderful Life, and see how you got it 180 degrees wrong. It is that book that blew the whistle big time on the lack of increasing diversity, across the board. Have you ever really read a single one of Gould's books?