Bursts

... is not the only game in town, as do Dawkins and Coyne and most biologists. I do not support the extreme position that evolution occurs ONLY in bursts, which is also the source of Dawkins' and Coyne's objections. The theory of symbiotic relationships driving evolution by Lynn Margulis, Is that ...

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... the new dots. I feel this explains Stephen Jay Gould's observation of evolution as a process of 'punctuated equilibrium' characterized by sudden bursts of evolution rather than it being a process of gradual, incremental change." What you describe is not evolution, it's magic. And carry the ...

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... of the cell than within it. Thus, diffusion of water may cause the cell to swell. The cell membrane prevents the bacteria from swelling until it bursts." OK, so I am a little bit confused here. I thought that water tends to move from areas of high concentration until areas of low concentration. ...

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... They don't show a lot of evolutionary change. But his theory's not false. It's just that most evolutionary change occurs in relatively rapid bursts—5 or 50,000 years—rather than millions of years, where they're typically stable. So his theory's not false—it's just a special form that he wrote ...

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... organisms". A virus is just RNA and/or DNA, that enters the cell, takes over the cell's machinery, makes more of itself till the cell usually bursts with viruses, or the clever viruses have learned how to live in the cell and by surrounding its DNA/RNA with the cell's membrane as a 'shield' ...

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