Life-span of families in fossil data forms q-exponential distribution

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1267-1271

  Shimada, Takashi ^a   Yukawa, Satoshi ^a   Ito, Nobuyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolution; Life span of families; Q exponential function; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842539590     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183103005406     Document Type: Article

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