When examining the fossil record, a large environmental change, like an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out a number of species, followed by adaptive radiation, would best be described by what kind of model?
a: habitat preference
b: punctuated equilibrium
c: temporal isolation
d: allopolyploidy
e: gradual speciation
Punctuated equilibrium describes how the process of evolution works and are usually coined from first appearance and subsequent histories and number species available in the fossil record.
