Meanings
nounpunctuationist (plural punctuationists)
plural punctuationists
- governmentIn 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’.
1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015, →ISBN
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