Who was Stephen Jay Gould?
My academic training is in the life sciences, so I have a bent toward scientific principles. It was in these studies that I was introduced to the biological logic of organic foods and the central unifying theory of Darwinian Evolution. The intuitive and long held view of Darwin’s theory of natural selection (as it is more properly called) was that species evolved by way of slow incremental change which gradually gave rise to new species. Graphically, this was shown as a gently sloping inclined plane inexorably leading to ever more fit species. In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould and his colleague Niles Eldredge suggested an alternative process to better fit the existing data. Instead of species evolving gradually from one to the other with many intermediary transitional forms, the fossil record showed that species went for long periods without change (stasis). Gould and Eldredge referred to this stasis as a state of equilibrium. Equilibrium is followed by abrupt change at an environmental/ecolog
