'''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]]. [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761596369/Niles_Eldredge.html]
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'''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]].<ref>http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761596369/Niles_Eldredge.html</ref><ref>http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/eldredge.html</ref> Eldridge and fellow paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould developed the [[Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium]].<ref>http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761596369/Niles_Eldredge.html</ref>