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evolutionary-biology

20 notes carry this tag — 11 claims, 3 questions, 6 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Eldredge and Gould's 1972 punctuated-equilibria essay cites Mayr 1963, not Mayr 1954, for the 'genetic revolution' mechanism, and names no Mayr 1954 work in its body text
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-27 · evolutionary-biology, speciation, ernst-mayr, punctuated-equilibrium, intellectual-history
• Do the primary texts (Eldredge & Gould 1972, Mayr 1954) confirm the biological punctuated-equilibrium quotes and the 'derived from Mayr' framing the vault has recorded?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-24 · evolutionary-biology, speciation, ernst-mayr, punctuated-equilibrium, peripatric-speciation
• Fossil trait-sequence studies like Hunt (2007) test only punctuated equilibrium's stasis-prevalence claim, not its separate claim that morphological change concentrates at speciation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, cladogenesis, gene-hunt
• Hunt (2007) found directional evolution the best-supported model in only 5% of ~250 fossil trait sequences, with the remainder split near-evenly between stasis and random walk
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, quantitative-paleobiology, gene-hunt
• Hunt (2007) framed the rarity of directional evolution as corroborating punctuated equilibrium's claim about phyletic gradualism, not as narrowing it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, gene-hunt, phyletic-gradualism
• Hunt, Voje & Liow's 2025 review of the aggregate quantitative record finds stasis common (~34–38% of cases) but not the dominant within-lineage mode, offering only partial support for punctuated equilibrium's strong claim
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, quantitative-paleobiology, gene-hunt
• Does Gene Hunt's 2007 survey of ~250 fossil lineages narrow the strong punctuated-equilibrium claim?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-16 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, quantitative-paleobiology, gene-hunt
• Does ICLE's 'competition for the market' (node-by-node semiconductor races) map formally onto Van Valen's constant-extinction-probability, or only metaphorically?
  capture promoted 2026-07-15 · semiconductors, red-queen, van-valen, competition-for-the-market, rocks-law
• In the paleoTS model set, the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck mode recasts fossil stasis as active mean-reversion toward an adaptive optimum, not a null absence of change
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-12 · evolutionary-biology, stasis, ornstein-uhlenbeck, mean-reversion, fitness-landscape
• Modern paleobiology fits fossil stasis as one of several competing stochastic models rather than describing it in prose
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-12 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, quantitative-paleobiology, stochastic-processes
• Does Gene Hunt's 2007 survey of ~250 fossil lineages (stasis and random walk dominate, directional trends rare) narrow the strong punctuated-equilibrium claim the vault records?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, quantitative-paleobiology, gene-hunt
• Is Sewall Wright's 1932 adaptive landscape a genuinely cited conceptual ancestor of the deep-learning 'loss landscape,' or only a loose after-the-fact resemblance?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · history-of-ml, evolutionary-biology, sewall-wright, adaptive-landscape, loss-landscape
• Fossil stasis is now a fitted stochastic model — the same Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process that prices bonds and describes SGD near a loss minimum
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, ornstein-uhlenbeck, stochastic-processes
• The Red Queen hypothesis (Van Valen, 1973) names the evolutionary 'run to stay in place' dynamic — constant extinction probability regardless of a taxon's age
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · evolutionary-biology, red-queen, van-valen, coevolution, extinction
• Eldredge & Gould's punctuated equilibrium was a logical consequence of Ernst Mayr's peripatric speciation, not a fresh idea
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-07-09 · evolutionary-biology, speciation, ernst-mayr, punctuated-equilibrium, intellectual-history
• Rock's Law forces chipmakers into a Red Queen race — the same evolutionary dynamic Barnett found inside the computer-manufacturing industry itself
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, compute-economics, semiconductors, rocks-law, red-queen
• Ernst Mayr's 1954 peripatric-speciation model already predicted the fossil record's gaps, two decades before Eldredge and Gould named punctuated equilibrium
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · evolutionary-biology, speciation, ernst-mayr, punctuated-equilibrium, intellectual-history
• Eldredge and Gould's 1972 punctuated equilibrium was Ernst Mayr's peripatric-speciation model applied to the fossil record, not a new evolutionary mechanism
  claim budding Tier 4 2026-07-09 · evolutionary-biology, speciation, ernst-mayr, punctuated-equilibrium, intellectual-history
• Punctuated equilibrium's genuine addition to Mayr's speciation model was its emphasis on stasis, not a new mechanism
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · evolutionary-biology, speciation, ernst-mayr, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis
• Do the primary texts (Eldredge & Gould 1972, Mayr 1954) confirm the biological punctuated-equilibrium quotes and the 'derived from Mayr' framing the vault has recorded?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · evolutionary-biology, speciation, ernst-mayr, punctuated-equilibrium, primary-source-verification