Punctuationist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    In evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism.

    "Since most of the life of a species, on the punctuationist view, is spent in unchanging stasis, and since a species has a discrete beginning and end, it follows that, to a punctuationist, a species can be said to have a definite, measurable ‘life span’."

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"Since most of the life of a species, on the punctuationist view, is spent in unchanging stasis, and since a species has a discrete beginning and end, it follows that, to a punctuationist, a species can be said to have a definite, measurable ‘life span’."

Etymology

From punctuation + -ist.

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