Niles Eldredge - Let's keep evolving!
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pulled from site's meta descriptionThe Official website of Dr. Niles Eldredge, paleontologist on the curatorial staff of the American Museum of Natural History. Authority on Charles Darwin along with evolutionary and ecological systems. Niles Eldredge: Niles Eldredge has been a paleontologist on the curatorial staff of the American Museum of Natural History since 1969. His specialty is the evolution of trilobites —a group of extinct arthropods that lived between 535 and 245 million years ago. Eldredge's main professional passion is evolution. Throughout his career, he has used repeated patterns in the history of life to refine ideas on how the evolutionary process actually works. The theory of "punctuated equilibria," developed with Stephen Jay Gould in 1972, was an early milestone. 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. Concerned with the rapid destruction of many of the world's habitats and species, Eldredge was Curator-in-Chief of the American Museum's Hall of Biodiversity (May, 1998), and has written several books on the subject—most recently (1998) Life in the Balance. He has also combatted the creationist movement through lectures, articles and books—including The Triumph of Evolution... And The Failure of Creationism (2000). An amateur jazz trumpeter and avid collector of 19th century cornets, Eldredge has turned his evolutionary approach to cornet history—and to the comparison of patterns and processes of material cultural and biological evolution. A critic of gene-centered theories of evolution, Eldredge's most recent venture is the development of an alternative account to the gene-based notions of "evolutionary psychology" to explain why human beings behave as they do. He lives with his wife and 400 cornets in Ridgewood, New Jersey—but repairs to the Adirondack Mountains to hike, think and write as often as possible.
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- Niles Eldredge
- Charles Darwin
- Stephen Jay Gould
- evolution
- punctuated equilibrium
- punctuated equilibria
- American Museum of Natural History
- evolutionary process
- Hall of Biodiversity
- trilobites
- evolutionary psychology
- Curator-in-Chief
- material cultural
- biological specialty
- extinct
- arthropods
- collection
- collecting
- cornets
- cornet