UID:
edocfu_9959241220702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (177 p.)
ISBN:
1-280-44010-4
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9786610440108
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1-4237-3564-1
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0-19-536407-4
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1-60129-670-3
Inhalt:
This is a book for biologists about the use of models in testing biological theory. Distinguished contributors describe the principles of modelling and tell how to apply models to research in molecular biology and genetics, ecology and evolution, and palaeontology.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Neutral Models as a Biological Research Strategy; I. MOLECULAR AND GENETIC MODELS; 1. Neutral Models in Molecular Evolution; 2. False Models as Means to Truer Theories; 3. Self-Organization, Selective Adaptation, and Its Limits: A New Pattern of Inference in Evolution and Development; II. ECOLOGICAL MODELS; 4. How to Be Objective in Community Studies; 5. On the Use of Null Hypotheses in Biogeography; III. PALEONTOLOGICAL MODELS; 6. Neutral Models in Paleobiology; 7. Neutral Model of Taxonomic Diversification in the Phanerozoic: A Methodological Discussion
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8. Testing Hypotheses or Fitting Models? Another Look at Mass ExtinctionsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-505099-1
Sprache:
Englisch
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