@ME II «Perhaps I'm wrong but wasn't allopatric speciation exactly what Gould was proposing, or at least built upon, for Punctuated Equilibrium?»
Not exact matches
To this end, Gould later commented that «Most of our paleontological colleagues missed this insight because they had
not studied evolutionary theory and either did
not know about
allopatric speciation or had
not considered its translation to geological time.
show me anywhere that
allopatric speciation (which is the ONLY mechanism that I am aware of put forth to explain PE) is a proven and accepted means by which such rapid change: A. takes place at all B. DOES
NT take place during the long periods of stasis.