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The wheel has come full circle in Britain, where the government is about to remove a monopoly on public innovations. Universities hope to benefit. They may not.
Darwin's views on the ‘tempo and mode’ of evolution are examined through six successive editions of the Origin of Species and through unpublished manuscript material. Although Darwin was a gradualist, there was a significant overlap between his views and those of the proponents of the current theory of punctuated equilibrium.
