Biology's First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems

By Daniel W. McShea, R. Brandon. 2010

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Subfields: Genetics, History and Philosophy of Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities (2014, background): “McShea and Brandon (2010) refer to this as stochasticity in the " with-respect-to sense " , and we argue that this conception of the term stochasticity may have great utility in ecology.”