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8. Describe the central insight of punctuated equilibria.

7. How does the formation of a ring species lead to speciation in the absence of allopatry?

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7. This theory suggests that "once a species appears in the fossil record, the population will become stable, showing little evolutionary change for most of its geological history"

Punctuated equilibrium states that evolution only takes place in bursts of time that are rapid.

For example sea animals lives, breeds, and dies for thousands of years. Suddenly, the sea level changes and the animals must adapt which leads to sudden evolutionary change as natural selection eliminates all the species that cannot survive.

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