Modeling Extinction

Name: Modeling Extinction
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ISBN: 9780195159462

ISBN-10: 0195159462

ISBN-13: 9780195159462

Edition: 2002

Authors: M. E. J. Newman, R. G. Palmer, R. G. Palmer

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Developed after a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute on extinction modeling, this book comments critically on the various modeling approaches. In the last decade or so, scientists have started to examine a new approach to the patterns of evolution and extinction in the fossil record. This approach may be called "statistical paleontology," since it looks at large-scale patterns in the record and attempts to understand and model their average statistical features, rather than their detailed structure. Examples of the patterns these studies examine are the distribution of the sizes of mass extinction events over time, the distribution of species lifetimes, or the apparent increase in the number…

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List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/20/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.462



Preface



Extinction in the Fossil Record



Fitness Landscape Model



Self-Organized Critical Models



Interspecies Connection Models



Environmental Stress Models



Non-equilibrium Models



Summary


References


Index