| − | Niles Eldredge, born in 1943, is an American paleontologist. [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761596369/Niles_Eldredge.html] Niles Eldridge and fellow paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould developed the [[theory of punctuated equilibrium|Theory of Equilibrium]]. [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761596369/Niles_Eldredge.html] | + | Niles Eldredge, born in 1943, is an American [[Paleontology|paleontologist]], author, and curator in the Department of [[Invertebrates]] at The American Museum of Natural History, in [[New York]][http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761596369/Niles_Eldredge.html][http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/eldredge.html] Niles Eldridge and fellow paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould developed the [[theory of punctuated equilibrium|Theory of Equilibrium]]. [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761596369/Niles_Eldredge.html] |