Article
Punctuated equilibrium based on a locally ambiguous niche.
Bio Systems - 1 Sept 2014
Gunji Yukio-Pegio, Sakiyama Tomoko, Murakami Hisashi
Abstract excerpt
Punctuated equilibrium, recently regarded as the power law distribution of lifespan, is estimated with respect to self-organized criticality. Previous explanations were based on a global property, such as the selection of species depending on their fitness, however a particular entity defined through such global property cannot be relevant to the notion of "self". Here, we introduce local ambiguity of a niche...
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