"punctuationism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015",
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        "(politics) In evolutionary biology, belief that evolution does not proceed at a steady pace, but instead is characterized by periods of stasis, punctuated by brief (within several hundred-thousand years) periods of rapid change."
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        {
          "word": "gradualism"
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  "word": "punctuationism"
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