Evolutionary patterns from mass originations and mass extinctions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1382, 1999, Pages 463-469

  Hewzulla, D ^a   Boulter, M C ^a   Benton, M J ^b   Halley, J M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Evolution; Extinction; Fractal scaling; Origination

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033611659     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0397     Document Type: Article

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