{"id":2256,"date":"2002-05-01T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2002-05-01T18:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2016-06-20T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:33:23","slug":"models-of-biological-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/models-of-biological-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Models of Biological Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evan Large with Harsh Mathur<\/h3>\n

Models of Biological Evolution<\/h3>\n

Many complex natural systems are believed to evolve into a non-equilibrium critical state, following which the system experiences change through drastic non-gradual events.\u00a0 The original Darwinian view of biological evolution was that change happened gradually over the course of time.\u00a0More recently, Gould and Eldridge have depicted biological evolution as periods of relative tranquility between occasional bursts of activity.\u00a0 The extinction of species can be seen as another self-organizing critical system, and can be modeled as such<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this project, biological evolution will be studied by a combination of numerical and analytical techniques and by analogy to models studied in statistical mechanics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evan Large with Harsh MathurModels of Biological Evolution<\/p>\n

Many complex natural systems are believed to evolve into a non-equilibrium critical state, following which the system experiences change through drastic non-gradual events.\u00a0 The original Darwinian view of biological evolution was that change happened gradually over the course of time.\u00a0More recently, Gould and Eldridge have depicted biological evolution as periods of relative tranquility between occasional bursts of activity.\u00a0 The extinction of species can be seen as another self-organizing critical system, and can be modeled as such<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this project, biological evolution will be studied by a combination of numerical and analytical techniques and by analogy to models studied in statistical mechanics.<\/p>\n

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