Niles Eldredge found evidence in trilobite fossils of a pattern of evolution in which short periods of large change are mixed in with longer periods of little or no change. This pattern is called_____??

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The pattern of evolution that Niles Eldredge found evidence of in trilobite fossils is called "punctuated equilibrium."