Question

What did Gould and Eldridge infer about the pace and timing of evolutionary change?

Evolutionary change occurred gradually and constantly throughout time.

The pace of evolutionary change has slowed down over time and it only rarely occurs now.

Periods during which evolution occurred were always preceded by a catastrophe.

Long periods of stability were punctuated with periods of evolutionary change.

Answer 1

D) long periods of stability were punctuated by with periods of evolutionary change.

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Answer 2

The correct answer is D) long periods of stability were punctuated by with periods of evolutionary change.

Gould and Eldredge inferred about the pace and timing of evolutionary change that long periods of stability were punctuated by with periods of evolutionary change.

Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge coined the term Punctuated Equilibrium in 1972. This means that species are stable, they just chance a Little in millions of years. But all of a sudden, the pace is punctuated by a fast change that allows the new species to come. The process is so fast that it leaves few fossils.