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The 12 pages that link to Punctuated equilibrium, each with the reason it gives.

• Modern synthesisCompared with: It challenged gradualist expectations often associated with the synthesis.

• GradualismCompared with: It challenges the expectation that evolutionary change proceeds at a steady, visible pace.

• Stephen Jay GouldRelated: Gould and Niles Eldredge introduced this model to explain patterns in the fossil record.

• Mosaic evolutionCompared with: It describes tempo across a lineage’s history, not differences in rates among traits.

• Clonal evolutionCompared with: Its pattern of change differs from gradual, continuous shifts in clone frequencies.

• Vertebrate evolutionCompared with: It offers one framework for interpreting the tempo of change in vertebrate fossils.

• MutationismRelated: Its episodic pattern can resemble mutationist claims, but it does not require mutation-driven leaps.

• History of evolutionary thoughtCompared with: It challenged assumptions that the fossil record should show consistently gradual change.

• MacroevolutionCompared with: It contrasts with gradualism over how evolutionary change appears in the fossil record.

• Transitional fossilCompared with: It predicts that transitional forms may be scarce in some lineages and intervals.

• Alternatives to Darwinian evolutionRelated: It challenges expectations of uniformly gradual change, though it does not reject natural selection.

• Evolution (general usage)Compared with: It contrasts gradual development with change concentrated in bursts.