Modeling Extinction (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity)

In the last decade or so, scientists have started to examine a new approach to the patterns of evolution and extinction in the fossil record. This approach may be called "statistical paleontology," since it looks at large-scale patterns in the record and attempts to understand and model their average statistical features, rather than their detailed structure. This book, developed after a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute on extinction modeling, comments critically on the various modeling approaches.

M.E.J. Newman and R.G. Palmer are both at Sante Fe Institute.