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Great to see Ilya Tëmkin’s recent thinking on Hierarchy Theory—and on the newly reconstituted “Bretskyan Hierarchy.” Towards a “General Theory of Biology” indeed!

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🔆 A great tribute to the brilliant Elisabeth Vrba Palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin “I’m interested in pushing out the frontiers of science, not sailing my boat through tranquil seas.” Elisabeth Vrba (1942–2025) 🧪 By @nilese.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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My Obituary of Elisabeth Vrba—out today in Nature in read-only format: rdcu.be/ediyO

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Could not agree more @nilese.bsky.social An honor and privilege to have known and worked with this key figure in #macroevolution & #paleontology #palaeontology

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World lost a second macroevolutionary musketeer — Elisabeth Vrba. R.I.P. Elisabeth the Great. 🧪 #Paleobio ⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio

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Cool new article on the punctuational nature of metastasising cancer process! doi.org/10.1098/rspb... This study strengthens our conjectured universality of the punctuational change, so called 'punctuated evolution'. cell.com/trends/ecolo... doi.org/10.1111/pala... 🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio

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I am deeply saddened to have learned of the death, on Feb 5, 2025, of Elisabeth Vrba—a fantastically creative scientist and a warm, wonderful human being. She leaves us a legacy of original macroevolutionary thinking that is still fresh and illuminating.

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My letter to the Editor of the Cornell Sun in support of the Paleontological Research Institution: cornellsun.com/2025/01/31/l...

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Herewith, designer Bruce Hannah’s “Polyhedral Coyote”, inspired by Chapter 9 on “Gould’s Polyhedron” and “Coywolf” evolution in our book “Macroevolutionaries”

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So much for US global leadership in scientific and medical research apple.news/ABPTmNWizTkG...

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Wish I could hear your talk Sergi!!!

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That was indeed fun..makes me want to go back and check out Ch 4 where we jump from Super Dave to David Hume with the greatest of ease…

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Looking forward to hearing more Sergi!!

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We finally have an explanation for 2023’s record-breaking temperatures A decline in cloud cover means Earth is absorbing more solar radiation which could explain the 0.2°C of missing heat scientists are struggling to account for www.newscientist.com/article/2458... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Do mass extinctions make life bounce back stronger? What does not kill Gaia makes her stronger: Impacts of external perturbations on biosphere evolution 🧪 academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... Periods of stress risk extinction, they also create opportunities for evolutionary exploration Sounds like PE

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@jdegregori.bsky.social Ola James!

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It’s a pleasure to share my “Reflections on Punctuated Equilibria” paper out earlier this year. Looking forward to posting more, and conversing with the growing crowd of evolutionary-minded savants of all disciplines! doi.org/10.1017/pab....

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Reflections on punctuated equilibria 🧪 Niles Eldredge @nilese.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... "It is a pleasure to be invited to contribute to the celebration of the publication of “punctuated equilibria” 50 years ago—the canonical version I did with Steve Gould"

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Happy to be here, and to share this link to Andrej’s upcoming talk on our work: twitter.com/niles_eldred...

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