Magna Carta (Great Charter) was originally a peace agreement between King John and a number of rebel feudal lords (barons), signed and agreed at a meadow at Runnymede in Surrey in 1215.
Gradualism, from Latin gradus (âstepâ), is a hypothesis, a theory or a tenet assuming that change comes about gradually or that variation is gradual in nature.Similar concepts are: uniformitarianism, incrementalism and reformism.n the natural sciences, gradualism is the theory which holds that profound change is the cumulative product of slow but continuous processes, often contrasted with catastrophism.
The idea was first proposed by American biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in their 1972 paper âPunctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualismâ. Gould and Eldredge argued that the history of a species generally shows a remarkable amount of stability which is then punctuated by periods of rapid change. Receive the best of The Hindu delivered to your inbox everyday!