S01E13 - Equilíbrio(s) Pontuado(s) aos 50 anos!

Notas do episódio

No episódio de hoje conversamos sobre a Teoria dos Equilíbrios Pontuados, proposta há 50 anos! Quais as principais alegações da teoria? Quer dizer que a evolução dá saltos? Respondemos a essas e outras perguntas, então não deixe de ouvir! Saiba mais: Sobre a teoria: ELDREDGE, Niles. The allopatric model and phylogeny in Paleozoic invertebrates. Evolution, p. 156-167, 1971. GOULD, Stephen Jay; ELDREDGE, Niles. Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. Models in paleobiology, v. 1972, p. 82-115, 1972. Entrevista com Niles Eldredge no Canal Coelho Pré-Cambriano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFS89Xlr6u8 Sobre a história da teoria: ELDREDGE, Niles. Stephen J. Gould in the 1960s and 1970s, and the Origin of “Punctuated Equilibria”. In: Stephen J. Gould: The Scientific Legacy. Springer, Milano, 2013. p. 3-19. SEPKOSKI, David. Rereading the fossil record. In: Rereading the Fossil Record. University of Chicago Press, 2012. ELDREDGE, Niles. Eternal ephemera. In: Eternal Ephemera. Columbia University Press, 2015. Os trabalhos de Elisabeth Vrba sobre species sorting, turnover pulse, effect hypothesis e macroevolução: VRBA, Elisabeth S. et al. Evolution, species and fossils: how does life evolve. South African Journal of Science, v. 76, n. 2, p. 61-84, 1980. VRBA, Elisabeth S. Macroevolutionary trends: new perspectives on the roles of adaptation and incidental effect. Science, v. 221, n. 4608, p. 387-389, 1983. VRBA, Elisabeth S.; GOULD, Stephen Jay. The hierarchical expansion of sorting and selection: sorting and selection cannot be equated. Paleobiology, v. 12, n. 2, p. 217-228, 1986. VRBA, Elisabeth S. What is species selection?. Systematic Zoology, v. 33, n. 3, p. 318-328, 1984. Sobre Hierarquias: ELDREDGE, Niles. Hierarchies and the sloshing bucket: toward the unification of evolutionary biology. Evolution: Education and Outreach, v. 1, n. 1, p. 10-15, 2008. ELDREDGE, N. The sloshing bucket: how the physical realm controls evolution:. 3-32 in JP Crutchfield and P. Schuster, eds. Evolutionary dynamics: exploring the interplay of selection, accident, neutrality, and function. 2003. Uma introdução mais geral à perspectiva hierárquica se encontra no livro Eternal Ephemera (Eldredge, 2015) supracitado. Uma revisão sobre tendências evolutivas: GREGORY, T. Ryan. Evolutionary trends. Evolution: Education and Outreach, v. 1, n. 3, p. 259-273, 2008. Evidências a favor da teoria: HUNT, Gene; HOPKINS, Melanie J.; LIDGARD, Scott. Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 112, n. 16, p. 4885-4890, 2015. HUNT, Gene. The relative importance of directional change, random walks, and stasis in the evolution of fossil lineages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 104, n. 47, p. 18404-18408, 2007. HOPKINS, Melanie J.; LIDGARD, Scott. Evolutionary mode routinely varies among morphological traits within fossil species lineages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 109, n. 50, p. 20520-20525, 2012. HUNT, Gene et al. Phenotypic evolution in fossil species: pattern and process. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 42, n. 1, p. 421-441, 2014. Aspectos históricos sobre Darwin e os Equilíbrios Pontuados: RHODES, FH T. Darwin's gradualism and empiricism (reply). Nature, v. 309, n. 5964, p. 116-116, 1984. Ver também Eldredge (2013), já referenciado.