Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 2003. Natural History, Conservation. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Oxford University Press. 102p., fine paperback. 1/26.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003., 2003
ISBN 10: 0195159462 ISBN 13: 9780195159462
Anbieter: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australien
Octavo, paperback,102 pp.,diagrams. 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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Zustand: New. Statistical paleontology is an approach to the examination pattern of the evolution and extinction in the fossil record. 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 comments critically on the various modeling approaches. Series: Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Num Pages: 120 pages, numerous figures. BIC Classification: PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 194. . . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.