Six Decades Post-Discovery of Taylor's Power Law: From Ecological and Statistical Universality, Through Prime Number Distributions and Tipping-Point Signals, to Heterogeneity and Stability of Complex Networks

Zhanshan Sam Ma, R. A. J. Taylor

First discovered by L. R. Taylor (1961, Nature), Taylor's Power Law (TPL) correlates the mean (M) population abundances and the corresponding variances (V) across a set of insect p…