Niles Eldredge
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Niles Eldredge (1943 - presente). Paleontólogo e biólogo evolutivo. Considérase o principal autor da teoría evolutiva dos equilibrios interrompidos.
Estudou na Universidade de Columbia, primeiro filoloxía latina e logo antropoloxía. Nesa época comezou a traballar no Museo Americano de Historia Natural.
Especializouse nos trilobites, concretamente no grupo Phacopidae, que xa estudara Thomas Henry Huxley, gran evolucionista do s. XIX, colaborador de Charles Darwin. Nos seus estudos, observou abruptos períodos de cambio, en realidade rápidos só a escala xeolóxica, que o fixeron reconsidera-lo dogma gradualista dende moi cedo.
En 1972, só tres anos despois de doutorarse, presentou un artigo conxuntamente co paleontólogo Stephen Jay Gould titulado: "Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to gradualist evolution" ou "Equilibrios interrompidos: unha alternativa á evolución gradualista". En realidade as súas propostas admiten evolución gradual durante períodos prolongados, pero habería interrupcións onde a evolución se aceleraría máis do agardado pola radiación adaptativa proposta na teoría sintética.
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Cracraft, J. y N. Eldredge (eds.) 1979. Phylogenetic Analysis and Palaeontology. Columbia University Press, New York
Eldredge, N. y J. Cracraft. 1980. Phylogenetic Patterns and the Evolutionary Process. Method and Theory in Comparative Biology. Columbia University Press, New York, 349 p. Japanese edition, Soju Shobo, 1990
Eldredge, N. 1982. The Monkey Business. A Scientist Looks at Creationism. Pocket Books, New York. 157 p. Japanese edition, 1992
Eldredge, N. y Tattersall, I. 1982. The Myths of Human Evolution. Columbia University Press, New York. 197 p. Japanese edition arranged through Columbia U. Press.; Spanish edition 1986: Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico; Portuguese ed.: 1984, Zahar Editores, Rio de Janeiro; Italian ed., 1984: Boringheri
Eldredge, N. y S. M. Stanley (eds.). 1984. Living Fossils. Springer Verlag, New York.
Eldredge, N. 1985. Time Frames. Simon and Schuster, New York. 240 pp. Great Britain: Heilman; Princeton University reprint edition. Italian edition, 1991, hopefulmonster editore
Eldredge, N. 1985. Unfinished Synthesis. Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought. Oxford University Press, New York
Eldredge, N. 1987. Life Pulse. Episodes in the History of Life. Facts on File, New York. Pelican edition (Great Britain)
Eldredge, N. (ed.). 1987. Natural History Reader on Evolution. Columbia University Press, New York
Eldredge, N. 1989. Macroevolutionary Dynamics: Species, Niches and Adaptive Peaks. McGraw Hill, New York. Japanese edition: McGraw Hill Publishing Co., Japan, Ltd.
Eldredge, N., D. Eldredge and G. Eldredge. 1989. The Fossil Factory. Addison Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, Massachusetts
Eldredge, N. 1991. The Miner's Canary. Extinctions Past and Present. Prentice Hall Books, New York; English edition: Virgin Publishing, Ltd.; Korean edition: Moeum Publishers; Italian edition: Sperling and Kupfer. German Edition: Spektrum; U.S. paperback edition: Princeton University Press
Eldredge, N. 1991. Fossils. The Evolution and Extinction of Species. Photographs by Murray Alcosser. Abrams, New York; Australian edition: Houghton Mifflin; English edition: Aurum Press; German edition: Belser Verlag
Eldredge, N. (ed.). 1992. Systematics, Ecology and the Biodiversity Crisis. Columbia University Press, New York
Eldredge, N. y M. Grene. 1992. Interactions. The Biological Context of Social Systems. Columbia University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Eldredge, N. 1995. Reinventing Darwin. The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory. John Wiley and Sons, New York; English edition: Orion; Italian edition: Einaudi Editore
Eldredge, N. 1995. Dominion. Henry Holt and Co; paperback edition, University of California Press, 1997
Eldredge, N. 1998. Life in the Balance. Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis. Princeton University Press. Portugal: Dinalivre; China/Taiwan: International Publishing Co.; Poland: Proscynski; Japan: Seidosha; Spain: TusQuets; Italy: Guilo Einaudi Editore
Eldredge, N. 1999. The Pattern of Evolution. W. H. Freeman and Co., New York
Eldredge, N. 2000. The Triumph of Evolution...And the Failure of Creationism. W.H. Freeman and Co., New York
Eldredge, N. (ed.). 2002. Life on Earth. An Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California
Eldredge, N. 2004. Why We Do It. Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene. W.W. Norton, New York
Eldredge, N. 2005. Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life. W.W. Norton, New York