| In the final analysis the authors identify key problems with gradualistic evolution of the immune system. |
| Of course, neither school specifically sets out to accept or reject gradualistic or punctuational change but they do emphasise different extremes of patterns of evolution. |
| The problem here is that Dawkins seems to assume a naturalistic and gradualistic explanation for the diversification of life on earth. |
| But he went on to urge the Bank of England to stick to its gradualistic approach in raising interest rates and not risk stifling the economic recovery. |
| Since environmental change was gradual, evolution could not help but be gradualistic also. |
| However, in recent decades geologists have been saying that the gradualistic uniformitarianism of Charles Lyell does not match the evidence. |
