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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Neutral Model of Ecology
The neutral model of ecology is based on the idea that organisms are independent and behave in a certain way. But when you look at byracolado island, i ask, well, was this just an ocurve or does it reflect something about t actual processes by which this community was formed? And there has been a huge debate in the achological literature about this. Well, how how does one go backwardso the answer istha, you can't really. I what it tells youthat asking for species abundance distributions is a question that is nice to know, may be useful for some things, but ais not going to answer the question about roseness.
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