Inferences about macroevolutionary processes have traditionally depended solely on the
fossil record, but such inferences can be strengthened by also considering the shapes of the …

Underlying the diversity of life and the complexity of ecology is order that reflects the
operation of fundamental physical and biological processes. Power laws describe empirical …

A variety of different social, natural and technological systems can be described by the same
mathematical framework. This holds from the Internet to food webs and to boards of …

Can physics be an appropriate framework for the understanding of ecological science? Most
ecologists would probably agree that there is little relation between the complexity of natural …

Developed from a lab-orientated multidisciplinary course, this book and CD-ROM package
brings together the theoretical groundwork for understanding the dynamics of systems of self …

Tempo and mode of evolution revealed from molecular phylogenies Page 1 Proc. Nati. Acad.
Sci. USA Vol. 89, pp. 8322-8326, September 1992 Evolution Tempo and mode of evolution …

In this article, we present a self-contained review of recent work on complex biological
systems which exhibit no characteristic scale. This property can manifest itself with fractals …

This review is an introduction to theoretical models and mathematical calculations for
biological evolution, aimed at physicists. The methods in the field are naturally very similar to …

If all species in a clade are equally likely to speciate or become extinct, then highly
symmetric and highly asymmetric phylogenetic trees are unlikely to result. Variation between …

This book is the culmination of three years of research effort on a multidisciplinary project in
which physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists and social scientists worked together …