ABSTRACT
Evolutionary biology has always been marked by controversy and this is something especially true of the subject for the past twenty years. In this essay, I want to look specifically at one such controversy, that which arose in palaeontology about the so-called theory of ‘punctuated equilibria’. Although I have written about this topic before, I want to take a more empirical, naturalistic approach than previously (Ruse 1989). The justification for my approach will be the strength of my results, so without further ado, let me get to work.
