ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] VAN VALENI has proposed an evolutionary law that has attracted considerable attention2"6. He showed that plots of survivorship of taxa as a function of age are commonly log-linear (see Fig. 1 of ref. 1). This he interpreted to mean that the probability of extinction of a taxon is independent of its ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/257514b0