What is it about?
This paper hypothesizes an evolutionary mechanism that is more interconnected than the usual mechanisms of natural selection and genetic drift. The possibility of evolution by a simple deterministic process is entertained.
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The proposed Lévy-stable model of molecular evolution differs from other fractal models in that its rate agrees with the infinite-variance generalization of the central limit theorem.
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This paper resulted from my PhD research supervised by Bruce West. For others, follow the "Related papers" link.
David R. Bickel
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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This page is a summary of: Molecular evolution modeled as a fractal statistical process, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, January 1998, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4371(97)00514-1.
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