punctuationist

English

Etymology

From punctuation +‎ -ist.

Noun

punctuationist (plural punctuationists)

1. (politics) In evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism.
   • 1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker‎^[1], W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015, →ISBN:

     Since most of the life of a species, on the punctuationist view, is spent in unchanging stasis, and since a species has a discrete beginning and end, it follows that, to a punctuationist, a species can be said to have a definite, measurable ‘life span’.

See also

• gradualist
• saltationist