punctuationist

English

Etymology

punctuation +‎ -ist

Noun

punctuationist (plural punctuationists)

  1. (politics) In evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism.
    • 1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker‎, 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’.

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