Scaling laws in the evolutionary processes of marine animals over the last 540 million years
Scaling laws are ubiquitous in modern biological systems. However, whether such patterns existed in deep-time biological systems is less investigated; the best-known example is the scaling law between the frequency and size of extinction events. Here, I show that the variation rates of biodiversity,...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2024-02-01
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Series: | Geosystems and Geoenvironment |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772883823000651 |