Yule and evolution (1924)

Nicolas Bacaër ()
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Chapter Chapter 15 in A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics, 2011, pp 81-88 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 1924 the British statistician Yule studied a model of evolution where species can produce new species by small mutations and genera can produce new genera by large mutations. His purpose was to explain the distribution of the number of species within genera, most genera containing only one species and a few genera containing a large number of species. The stochastic “birth process” Yule introduced in his model is still a basic tool in the study of phylogenetic trees and many other areas.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_15

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