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Sudden OriginsFossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species"
by Jeffery H Schwartz
I now have this book and will be writting bits about it as time permits.
In the acknowledgments he says (among other things) "And, as so often happens, a chance conversation with Nile Eldredge of the American Museum of Natural History provoked me to consider in greater depth the implications of some of my earlier conclusions."
So I find it difficult to believe he was not aware of Punk Eek.
He starts the book by saying that often we need to reinvestigate old theories that have only lost out by "intellectual vicotry" (presumably rather than by the evidence against them), as this "does not, however, necessariy equate with correctness" and then he proceeds to list a number of "gaps" in the fossil record and he goes back to the thinking of Georges Cuvier and his theory of multiple floods and multiple edens as places of refuge during the floods as an early explanation of saltation and sudden appearance of new types of species.
SO far it looks like he is just laying the philosophical background similar to Eldredge and Gould on Punk Eek.
Enjoy.
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