Punctuated gradualism
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Punctuated gradualism is a macroevolutionary hypothesis that refers to a species that has "relative stasis over a considerable part of its total duration [and] underwent periodic, relatively rapid, morphologic change that did not lead to lineage branching".[1]
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- ^ GeoScienceWorld article Evidence for punctuated gradualism in the late Neogene Globorotalia tumida lineage of planktonic foraminifera