punctuationism

English

Etymology

punctuation +‎ -ism

Noun

punctuationism (uncountable)

  1. In evolutionary biology, belief that evolution does not proceed at a steady pace, but instead is characterized by periods of stasis, punctuated by brief (within several hundred-thousand years) periods of rapid change.

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