Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun punctuated_equilibrium

1 sense of punctuated equilibrium

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punctuated equilibrium, theory of punctuated equilibrium -- (a theory of evolution holding that evolutionary change in the fossil record came in fits and starts rather than in a steady process of slow change)
       => theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution, evolutionism -- ((biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals)