A wonderful life by leaps and bounds

Steve Jones
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Steve Jones: Steve Jones is professor of genetics at University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK. His most recent book is Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise. j.s.jones@ucl.ac.uk

Nature, 2008, vol. 456, issue 7224, 873-874

Abstract: Stephen Jay Gould's idea of evolution by bursts was controversial. But it gave the field of palaeontology a long-overdue boost, explains Steve Jones.

Date: 2008
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