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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(politics) In evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism..
Since most of the life of a species, on the punctuationist view, is spent in unchanging stasis, and since a species has a discrete beginning and end, it follows that, to a punctuationist, a species can be said to have a definite, measurable ‘life span’.
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Punctuationist means (politics) In evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism..
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Since most of the life of a species, on the punctuationist view, is spent in unchanging stasis, and since a species has a discrete beginning and end, it follows that, to a punctuationist, a species can be said to have a definite, measurable ‘life span’.
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