Modeling Extinction
Series: Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 March 2003
- ISBN 9780195159462
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages120 pages
- Size 162x235x8 mm
- Weight 213 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures 0
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Short description:
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. This book, developed after a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute on extinction modeling, comments critically on the various modeling approaches.
MoreLong description:
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.
... presents a self-contained review of work in this field.
Table of Contents:
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
