3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored
by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and
Peter Williamson, collaborated
by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural
anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.
Last week, the New York Times published an Op - Ed
by Peter Wynn Kirby, a social
anthropologist at Oxford, alleging that the United Kingdom promoted the Hinkley Point C project as «a stealth initiative to bolster Britain's nuclear deterrent.»