punctuationism

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From punctuation +‎ -ism.

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punctuationism (uncountable)

  1. (politics) In evolutionary biology, belief that evolution does not proceed at a steady pace, but instead is characterized by periods of stasis, punctuated by brief (within several hundred-thousand years) periods of rapid change.
    • 1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker[1], W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015, →ISBN:
      Gould has misled himself by his own rhetorical emphasis on the purely poetic or literary resemblance between punctuationism, on the one hand, and true saltationism on the other.

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