punctuationist
nounEtymology From punctuation + -ist.
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Government, Politics In evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism.
- Since most of the life of a species, on the punctuationist view, is spent in unchanging stasis, and since a species has a discrete beginning and end, it follows that, to a punctuationist, a species can be said to have a definite, measurable ‘life span’.1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015, →ISBN:
- Related terms
- gradualist, saltationist