Modeling Extinction - Couverture souple

Newman, M.E.J.; Palmer, R.G.

 
9780195159462: Modeling Extinction
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0195159462 ISBN 13 : 9780195159462
Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 2003

Synopsis

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 of species alive over the last half a billion years. In attempting to model these patterns, researchers have drawn on ideas not only from paleontology, but from evolutionary biology, ecology, physics, and applied mathematics, including fitness landscapes, competitive exclusion, interaction matrices, and self-organized criticality. A self-contained review of work in this field.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 of species alive over the last half a billion years. In attempting to model these patterns, researchers have drawn on ideas not only from paleontology, but from evolutionary biology, ecology, physics, and applied mathematics, including fitness landscapes, competitive exclusion, interaction matrices, and self-organized criticality. A self-contained review of work in this field.

Revue de presse

... presents a self-contained review of work in this field. (Ethology Ecology & Evolution)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press USA
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195159462
ISBN 13 
9780195159462
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
120
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  0195159454 ISBN 13 :  9780195159455
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2003
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