2 papers
adap-org1998
Power spectra of extinction in the fossil record
M. E. J. Newman, Gunther J. Eble
Recent Fourier analyses of fossil extinction data have indicated that the power spectrum of extinction during the Phanerozoic may take the form of 1/f noise, a result which, it has…
adap-org1998
Decline in extinction rates and scale invariance in the fossil record
M. E. J. Newman, Gunther J. Eble
We show that the decline in the extinction rate during the Phanerozoic can be accurately parameterized by a logarithmic fit to the cumulative total extinction. This implies that ex…