Punctuated Equilibrium Welcome! You are encouraged to register with the site and login (for free). When you register, you support the site and your question history is saved.The evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium maintains that the characteristics that are possessed by any given species developed over long periods of stability interrupted by short periods of rapid change. that the characteristics that are possessed by any given species developed that the characteristics that have been possessed by any given species had developed that the characteristics of any given species were possessed and have developed the characteristics of any given species to be a possession developed the characteristics that are possessed by any given species to have been developed Review Answer