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Quantifying Hierarchical Selection
Hardik Rajpal, Clem von Stengel, Pedro A. M. Mediano +4
At what level does selective pressure effectively act? When considering the reproductive dynamics of interacting and mutating agents, it has long been debated whether selection is…
Non-equilibrium evolution of volatility in origination and extinction explains fat-tailed fluctuations in Phanerozoic biodiversity
Andrew J. Rominger, Miguel A. Fuentes, Pablo Marquet
Fluctuations in biodiversity, large and small, are pervasive in the fossil record, yet we do not understand the processes generating them. Here we extend theory from non-equilibriu…
Humans: the hyper-dense species
Joseph R. Burger, Vanessa P. Weinberger, Pablo A. Marquet
Humans, like all organisms, are subject to fundamental biophysical laws. Van Valen predicted that, because of zero-sum dynamics, all populations of all species in a given environme…