Re: Gould criticism and reviews

John Harshman wrote:
Tim Tyler wrote:
John Harshman wrote:

Have you ever actually read any of the technical literature on PE, particularly Eldredge and Gould 1972, the first publication on the subject?

Um, yes. [...]

That is where they invented - and then trashed - "phyletic gradualism".

They didn't invent it. They may have caricatured it a bit, but such geological-timescale gradualism was a common expectation before they wrote.

AFAIK, they invented the term. They justified not supporting
their concept with references by claiming that it was "rarely
articulated" - and the evidence they did provide consisted of
a diagram which was probably not intended to illustrate
evolutionary rates. Classic signs of a Gould straw man.
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