Modeling Extinction

by M.E.J. Newman and R.G. Palmer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195159462
• ISBN13: 9780195159462
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"