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Title Neutral models in biology / edited by Matthew H. Nitecki and Antoni Hoffman
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1987

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Description 1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations, portrait
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
Summary 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
Analysis Biology Models
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Biological models.
Biology -- Mathematical models.
Models, Biological
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
Biological models
Biology -- Mathematical models
Biologisches System
Modell
Aufsatzsammlung
Form Electronic book
Author Hoffman, Antoni
Nitecki, Matthew H
LC no. 86033235
ISBN 1423735641
9781423735649
1601296703
9781601296702
1280440104
9781280440106
9786610440108
6610440107
0195364074
9780195364071