Niles Eldredge

15.1k citations
154 papers · 10.9k · 6 hit papers · h-index 37

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Niles Eldredge

145 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Niles Eldredge's Hit Papers

Punctuated equilibrium comes of age 1993 · 678 citations
6780+18+36Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k

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Niles Eldredge
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  • Paleontology 3.9k
  • History and Philosophy of Science 1.2k
  • Ecological Modeling 481
  • Genetics 2.3k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1.6k
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All Works

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Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism
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19722359
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Punctuated equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered
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19771881
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Phylogenetic Patterns and the Evolutionary Process.
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1981687
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Punctuated equilibrium comes of age
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1993678
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Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls.
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1975546
6 1981338
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Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought
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1985317
8 2005303
9 1984248
10 1971182
11 1972161
12 1981143
13 1982142
14 2007139
15
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
1979127
16
Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory
1995115
17
The Sixth Extinction
2001100
18 199698
19 197998
20 198697

About Niles Eldredge

Niles Eldredge is a scholar working on Paleontology, History and Philosophy of Science, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, having authored 154 papers that have together received 10.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (30 papers), Evolution and Science Education (19 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (18 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (15 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (14 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (14 papers), Plant and animal studies (10 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (3.9k citations), History and Philosophy of Science (1.2k citations), Ecological Modeling (481 citations), Genetics (2.3k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (1.6k citations). Niles Eldredge has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Spain and Lithuania. Frequent co-authors include Stephen Jay Gould, Thomas J. M. Schöpf, Joël Cracraft, S. J. Gould, A. J. Boucot, Vicki A. Funk, Bruce S. Lieberman, Ian Tattersall, Elisabeth S. Vrba and Harrington Wells. Their work appears in journals such as Paleobiology, Evolution Education and Outreach, Nature, Evolution and American Museum Novitates.

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