Ah, finally got some real action out of you guys. Not bad.

Eliezer,

Pretty decent list. Of course, no way we are going to resolve this, especially if we are going to rule out such "objective" measures as citations, where indeed I suspect p.e. will beat most of those. Also, there is the complication that several of those are really extensions of each other, such as Price's equation providing conditions for multi-level evolution, which is also partly connected to reciprocal altruism, not to mention that the since the gene's-eye view tends to imply gradualism, which is hardly dead, p.e. challenges it.

J Thomas,

I would agree that it is of the greatest importance to palenotologists. One importance of p.e., ironically, is that although creationists sometimes tried to use Gould's arguments against evolution, p.e. provides an answer to the old creationist gibe about "where are all the missing links?" (although somehow those folks conveniently ignore good old Archeopteryx somehow).