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View SchemaSpeciational view of macroevolution: are micro and macroevolution decoupled?
| Authors | V. Schwammle, E. Brigatti |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | q-bio/0509032 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0509032 |
| DOI | 10.1209/epl/i2006-10095-7 |
Abstract
We introduce a simple computational model that, with a microscopic dynamics driven by natural selection and mutation alone, allows the description of true speciation events. A statistical analysis of the so generated evolutionary tree captures realistic features showing power laws for frequency distributions in time and size. Albeit these successful predictions, the difficulty in obtaining punctuated dynamics with mass extinctions suggests the necessity of decoupling micro and macro-evolutionary mechanisms in agreement with some ideas of Gould's and Eldredge's theory of punctuated equilibrium.
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