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	Niles Eldredge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Niles Eldredge (born August 25, 1943) is an American paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972.
		Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould proposed punctuated equilibrium in 1972.
		Eldredge is a critic of the gene-centric view of evolution and the notion that evolutionary theory can be held accountable to patterns of historical data.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niles_Eldredge (616 words)

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		Niles Eldredge is a Curator in the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, where he has worked as an active research paleontologist since 1969.
		In Dominion, Niles Eldredge, the paleontologist whose evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibria (developed with Stephen Jay Gould in the early 1970s) is today's science, reveals that the decoupling of physical and cultural evolution some ten thousand years ago offers the strongest clue to what to expect in the future.
		This rhythm of life--a concept developed by Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould known as punctuated equilibria in evolution-- is revealed by the fossilized remains of the earth's ancient flora and fauna.
	www.freewebs.com /whatwoulddarwindo/eldredgebooks.html (1612 words)

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		Niles Eldredge is a curator in the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History.
		According to Eldredge, the dominant view in evolutionary biology today is that all evolutionary development can be explained in terms of the competition among individuals to leave the maximum possible copies of their genetic material for the next generation.
		Eldredge aims not to destroy evolution, but to show how it must proceed to be consistent with observable patterns in the fossil record and among species living today.
	www.asa3.org /aSA/docs/asa_doc2.txt (830 words)

	Reinventing Darwin: The Great Evolutionary Debate (Niles Eldredge)
		Eldredge himself sits with the latter (he was, after all, coauthor with Gould of the original punctuated equilibrium paper) and he doesn't hide his own opinions.
		Chapter six considers the evolution of large, complex systems and introduces Eldredge and Salthe's idea of dual genealogical and economic hierarchies (at a rather more accessible level than their original paper on the subject).
		Eldredge lacks the literary and rhetorical flourishes of a Gould or a Dawkins, but in many ways that is an advantage: I think he offers a better insight into what is at stake in current debates within evolutionary biology than either.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Reinventing_Darwin.html (347 words)

	Niles Eldridge Biography / Biography of Niles Eldridge World of Genetics Biography
		Niles Eldredge is a paleontologist best known for a theory he developed with fellow paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called punctuated equilibrium--an evolutionary theory that challenged Darwinian gradualism and changed the way scientists interpret the fossil record.
		Eldredge is a staunch opponent of the so-called "scientific creationism" movement, and he remains a prolific author.
		Eldredge was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Robert and Eleanor Eldredge.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-niles-eldridge-wog (222 words)

	Punctuated Equilibria
		While Eldredge and Gould acknowledge that geological processes contribute to the "gappiness" of the fossil record, they also assert that PE is by far the more important consideration in that regard.
		Eldredge and Gould's insight into paleontological processes was to derive their understanding of paleospecies from living biological species.
		Eldredge and Gould quoted from Darwin in their 1972 paper to establish their concept of phyletic gradualism.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/punc-eq.html (3019 words)

	Amazon.ca: Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eldredge points out that within species, different groups ('demes') can evolve differences from the main group, but that species are normally one reproductive entity, and that thus small differences get merged back into the species average.
		Eldredge does prove that the selfish gene perspective is not enough to explain human behavior, but this is beside the point.
		Eldredge also notes the significance of long-term stasis in ecosystems, which he has observed in ongoing research on Middle Devonian (approximately 370-360 million years) marine ecosystems in what is now New York with paleontologist Carlton Brett and his colleagues.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0471303011 (2711 words)

	Online NewsHour: Museum Provides Look at Life of Charles Darwin -- March 1, 2006
		Niles Eldredge -- an evolution theorist himself -- is the curator of the exhibition and author of the companion book.
		NILES ELDREDGE: I think it is almost an unparalleled opportunity to understand the essence of creativity in somebody.
		NILES ELDREDGE: So his dad says okay, so let's put you off to Cambridge, take an undergraduate degree there and become a clergyman so you have some respectable thing to do and you can collect all the beetles you want while you are being a country curie.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/jan-june06/darwin_3-01.html (1114 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Niles Eldredge
		Niles Eldredge (born August 25, 1943) is a paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972.
		Eldredge graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University in 1965, and enrolled in the doctoral program at Columbia College while continuing his research at the Museum.
		Eldredge is a critic of the gene-centered view of evolution and the notion that evolutionary theory can be held accountable to patterns of historical data.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Niles_Eldredge (560 words)

	LRB \| Thomas Nagel : Why so cross? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eldredge is associated in this controversy with Stephen Jay Gould, his long-term research collaborator.* The disagreement, and the heat that it generates, are difficult for an outsider to understand, but they appear to have something to do with the way in which evolutionary theory is to be presented to a broader public.
		Eldredge and Gould coined the term 'punctuated equilibria' to describe their theory of this non-gradual evolutionary process whereby short bursts of rapid change are followed by long periods of stasis.
		Eldredge's book opens by deriding Dawkins's claim that it will eventually be possible to explain the structure of ecosystems in terms of the competition for replicative success among genes.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v21/n07/print/nage01_.html (2442 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene - Niles Eldredge - Hardcover - ...
		Eldredge (The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism, etc.), a paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, believes that sociobiologists like Richard Dawkins and E.O. Wilson are dead wrong in their explanation of life as a mechanism by which "selfish genes" try to propagate and ensure their own survival.
		Eldredge persuasively describes sex itself as having been "decoupled" from reproduction and bound up with the economic side of human life (sex for "fun, profit, and power," as he puts it).
		Eldredge doesn't offer as simple an answer to his eponymous question as those against whom he is arguing, and his insightful thesis that genes alone do not govern human behavior is bound to provoke controversy in the evolutionary biology world.
	btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=3439IJ5PGI&sourceid=00395996645644787198&btob=Y&endeca=1&isbn=0393050823&itm=6 (743 words)

	Fibreculture Journal Issue 3
		Eldredge examines the fossil record of trilobites to determine their evolutionary history, demarcating lineages based on the way their form has changed over time.
		Eldredge chose a representative sample of 36 cornets from his collection, and nominated 17 characteristics (or features of cornet "anatomy") to trace over time, like how the bell is positioned on the instrument.
		Niles Eldredge is Adjunct Professor of Biology and Geology at the City University of New York, and Curator-in-Chief of the permanent exhibition "Hall of Biodiversity" at the American Museum of Natural History.
	journal.fibreculture.org /issue3/issue3_barnet.html (5296 words)

	Alibris: Niles Eldredge
		Eldredge argues that the Earth confronts a disaster in the making--an ecological crisis that, if left unresolved, could ultimately lead to mass extinction on the scale of that which killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
		Eldredge argues against the popular school of thought that human behavior is governed by genes--especially when it comes to sex.
		Paleontologist Niles Eldredge offers a fascinating exploration of the way we investigate and understand the evolution of Earth and the life on it, describing how the key issues and events in science over the past two centuries have brought us to the brink of a more holistic understanding of the planet.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Niles_Eldredge (1001 words)

	Amazon.com: The Triumph of Evolution : and the Failure of Creationism: Books: Niles Eldredge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eldredge (The Pattern of Evolution), a paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, has tangled with creationists before (notably in 1982's The Monkey Business); his new work is mostly an articulate, clear and unstinting brief for evolution by means of natural selection, and for the scientific method against its enemies.
		Niles Eldridge shows examples where he has been deliberately misquoted by creationists with their own agendas, but without more detailed analyses of data supporting evolution, people may just give up and say "the data support intelligent design" because more hard data, even if erroneous, was offered by creationists.
		It is obvious that Niles Eldredge can only be addressing those who they are convinced that chance and randomness lead their own thought processes and are thus ready to accept a "anything goes" methodology when it comes to reasoning and inference.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805071474?v=glance (2399 words)

	Reinventing Darwin
		Niles Eldredge is a paleontologist who works as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in the Department of Invertebrates.
		Eldredge talks about Darwin’s original theory: that life has an incredibly long history, and that all species have descended from a common ancestor.
		Eldredge efficiently argues an impressive case for the naturalists and his punctuated equilibria theory.
	scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu /rv/es204/reviews/jc.html (948 words)

	Dr. Niles Eldredge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Niles Eldredge has been a paleontologist on the curatorial staff of the American Museum of Natural History since 1969.
		Eldredge went on to develop a hierarchical vision of evolutionary and ecological systems, and in his book The Pattern of Evolution (1999) has recently developed a comprehensive theory (the "sloshing bucket") that specifies in detail how environmental change governs the evolutionary process.
		Freeman and Co., N.Y. Eldredge, N. The Triumph of Evolution...And the Failure of Creationism.
	research.amnh.org /vertpaleo/eldredge.html (486 words)

	"Species, Speciation, and the Environment" by Niles Eldredge, Ph.D.
		Paleontologist Dr. Niles Eldredge, is the Curator-in-Chief of the permanent exhibition "Hall of Biodiversity" at the American Museum of Natural History and adjunct professor at...
		Short explanation of the "punctuated equilibrium" theory of Niles Eldredge and Stephen Gould.
		The Pattern of Evolution by Niles Eldredge offers a fascinating exploration of the way we investigate and understand the evolution of Earth and the life on it, describing how the key issues and events in science over the past two centuries have brought us to the brink of a more holistic understanding of the planet.
	www.actionbioscience.org /evolution/eldredge.html (3160 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pattern of Evolution: Books: Niles Eldredge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Celebrated theorist Niles Eldredge shows us how the adaptation of organisms to their environment mirrors other natural processes in The Pattern of Evolution, and while he's at it, he gets in a few jabs at "ultra-Darwinians" like Richard Dawkins.
		Eldredge goes beyond the usual culprits?rapid global cooling, periodic ice ages, catastrophic meteor collisions?by also citing plate tectonics, shifts in the earth's crust causing dramatic changes in oceanic circulation and global climate.
		Eldredge would have done better to end this book at the second paragraph: "Richard Dawkins must be right after all!" Unfortunately, after making this capitulation he then turns to a pejorative, labelling Dawkins and his [unnamed] colleagues as "UltraDarwinists".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0716730464?v=glance (1844 words)

	The collector
		Eldredge's other wall is in the more private setting of his home in rural New Jersey.
		Eldredge had been particularly riled when its proponents wrongly declared that his work on punctuated equilibria undermined Darwin and actually supported their line.
		While Eldredge clearly relishes the chance to poke creationism in the eye, he is not on any particular crusade.
	cas.bellarmine.edu /tietjen/Evolution/collector.htm (2113 words)

	Pioneers in Biology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dr. Eldredge´s speciality is analyzing the relationship between global extinctions of the geologic past and the present-day biodiversity crisis, as well as the general relationship between extinction and evolution.
		After this Eldredge went on to develop a hierarchical vision of evolutionary and ecological systems, and in his book The Pattern of Evolution (1999) has recently developed a comprehensive theory (the "sloshing bucket") that specifies in detail how environmental change governs the evolutionary process.
		Eldredge, N. "The Triumph of Evolution..And the Failure of Creationism." W.H. Freeman and Co., N.Y.
	www.pioneers.au.dk /eldredge.htm (578 words)

	Biography: Niles Eldredge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Niles Eldredge was in school, his favorite subject was Latin.
		Niles was still an undergraduate when he came to AMNH to work on a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
		To Niles, being a paleontologist is not all that different from being a historian or studying Latin.
	www.counterbalance.net /bio/nilese-body.html (301 words)

	Reinventing Darwin. The Great Evolutionary debate. (Niles Eldredge).
		I learned from Niles Eldredge that scientists such as Maynard Smith, Williams and Dawkins (geneticists) are in fact ultra-Darwinists.
		Niles Eldredge does not recognise 'Normal Darwinists', but probably he would classify evolutionists as Dobzhansky, Mayr and Simpson in that group.
		Niles Eldredge (2000) "The Triumph of Evolution and the failure of creationism".
	home.planet.nl /~gkorthof/kortho10.htm (453 words)

	The Third Culture - Chapter 6
		Daniel C. Dennett: What Niles Eldredge wanted to show, and did show, along with Stephen Jay Gould, in their classic 1972 paper on punctuated equilibrium, was that the reigning assumption of their fellow paleontologists that the fossil records should show smooth gradual change over any timescale was wrong.
		NILES ELDREDGE is a paleontologist; curator in the Department of Invertebrates at The American Museum of Natural History, in New York; author of Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria and Unfinished Synthesis (1985), The Miner's Canary (1991), and Fossils (1991), Reinventing Darwin (1995), and Dominion (1996).
		Eldredge is one of the few people willing and able to interface between commonly held truths that are, in my opinion and in his opinion, gross misunderstandings and what science really tells us.
	www.edge.org /documents/ThirdCulture/m-Ch.6.html (3191 words)

	Niles Eldredge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Niles Eldredge is Curator in the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History, and Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York.
		A specialist in mid-Paleozoic phacopid trilobites, his focus is on achieving a better "fit" between historical patterns of stasis and change in the fossil record and evolutionary theory.
		He has embarked on a new project examining the nature of pattern perception and analysis in the "historical" sciences, and the relative merits of hierarchy versus reductionism in approaching complexity.
	research.amnh.org /biodiversity/symposia/archives/climate/bioeldredge.html (172 words)

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