# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/niles-eldredge
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:39:49.912Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/niles-eldredge"
name: "Niles Eldredge"
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description: "Niles Eldredge is an American biologist and paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972."
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birthDate: "1943-08-25"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump