Niles Eldredge

**Niles Eldredge**, nado en Nova Jersey en 1943, foi un paleontólogo e biólogo evolutivo estadounidense. Considérase o principal autor da teoría evolutiva do equilibrio interrompido.

## Traxectoria 
Estudou na Universidade de Columbia, primeiro filoloxía latina e logo antropoloxía. Nesa época comezou a traballar no Museo Americano de Historia Natural.

Especializouse nos trilobites, concretamente no grupo Phacopidae, que xa estudara Thomas Henry Huxley, grande evolucionista do s. XIX, colaborador de Charles Darwin. Nos seus estudos, observou abruptos períodos de cambio, en realidade rápidos só a escala xeolóxica, que o fixeron reconsidera-lo dogma gradualista dende moi cedo.

En 1972, tres anos despois de doutorarse, presentou un artigo conxuntamente co paleontólogo Stephen Jay Gould titulado: "Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to gradualist evolution" ou "Equilibrios interrompidos: unha alternativa á evolución gradualista". En realidade as súas propostas admiten evolución gradual durante períodos prolongados, pero habería interrupcións onde a evolución se aceleraría máis do agardado pola radiación adaptativa proposta na teoría sintética.

## Obras 
* Cracraft, J. e N. Eldredge (eds.) 1979. Phylogenetic Analysis and Palaeontology. Columbia University Press, Nova York 
* Eldredge, N. e J. Cracraft. 1980. Phylogenetic Patterns and the Evolutionary Process. Method and Theory in Comparative Biology. Columbia University Press, Nova York, 349 p. Japanese edition, Soju Shobo, 1990 
* Eldredge, N. 1982. The Monkey Business. A Scientist Looks at Creationism. Pocket Books, Nova York. 157 p. Edición xaponesa, 1992 
* Eldredge, N. e Tattersall, I. 1982. The Myths of Human Evolution. Columbia University Press, Nova York. 197 p. Japanese edition arranged through Columbia U. Press.; Spanish edition 1986: Fondo de Cultura Económica, México; Portuguese ed.: 1984, Zahar Editores, Río de Xaneiro; Italian ed., 1984: Boringheri 
* Eldredge, N. e S. M. Stanley (eds.). 1984. Living Fossils. Springer Verlag, Nova York. 
* Eldredge, N. 1985. Time Frames. Simon and Schuster, Nova York. 240 pp. Great Britain: Heilman; Princeton University reprint edition. Italian edition, 1991, hopefulmonster editore 
* Eldredge, N. 1985. Unfinished Synthesis. Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought. Oxford University Press, Nova York 
* Eldredge, N. 1987. Life Pulse. Episodes in the History of Life. Facts on File, Nova York. Pelican edition (Great Britain) 
* Eldredge, N. (ed.). 1987. Natural History Reader on Evolution. Columbia University Press, Nova York 
* Eldredge, N. 1989. Macroevolutionary Dynamics: Species, Niches and Adaptive Peaks. McGraw Hill, Nova York. Japanese edition: McGraw Hill Publishing Co., Japan, Ltd. 
* Eldredge, N., D. Eldredge and G. Eldredge. 1989. The Fossil Factory. Addison Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, Massachusetts 
* Eldredge, N. 1991. The Miner's Canary. Extinctions Past and Present. Prentice Hall Books, Nova York; edición inglesa: Virgin Publishing, Ltd.; edición koreana: Moeum Publishers; edición italiana: Sperling and Kupfer. Edición alemá: Spektrum; edición estadounidense: Princeton University Press 
* Eldredge, N. 1991. Fossils. The Evolution and Extinction of Species. Fotografías de Murray Alcosser. Abrams, Nova York; edición australiana: Houghton Mifflin; edición inglesa: Aurum Press; edición alemá: Belser Verlag 
* Eldredge, N. (ed.). 1992. Systematics, Ecology and the Biodiversity Crisis. Columbia University Press, Nova York 
* Eldredge, N. e M. Grene. 1992. Interactions. The Biological Context of Social Systems. Columbia University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 
* Eldredge, N. 1995. Reinventing Darwin. The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory. John Wiley and Sons, Nova York; English edition: Orion; Italian edition: Einaudi Editore 
* Eldredge, N. 1995. Dominion. Henry Holt and Co; paperback edition, University of California Press, 1997 
* Eldredge, N. 1998. Life in the Balance. Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis. Princeton University Press. Portugal: Dinalivre; China/Taiwán: International Publishing Co.; Poland: Proscynski; Japan: Seidosha; Spain: TusQuets; Italy: Guilo Einaudi Editore 
* Eldredge, N. 1999. The Pattern of Evolution. W. H. Freeman and Co., Nova York 
* Eldredge, N. 2000. The Triumph of Evolution...And the Failure of Creationism. W.H. Freeman and Co., Nova York 
* Eldredge, N. (ed.). 2002. Life on Earth. An Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California 
* Eldredge, N. 2004. Why We Do It. Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene. W.W. Norton, Nova York 
* Eldredge, N. 2005. Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life. W.W. Norton, Nova York

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