The Systems Measurement of Mammalian Biotas, Part Two.

ABSTRACT: For a recent publication, the authors identified a seven-region model of mammal family distribution patterns, in which each unit contributes equally to the system's overall statistical characteristics of diversity, despite its individual units having measurably different levels of diversity and endemism. This systemization presents a highly efficient descriptive model that can possibly be interpreted as a form of natural classification. An additional analysis of the same mode is described here, in which the seven-region model of the distribution of mammal families' spatial affinities is shown to closely approach a most-probable-state arrangement, as assessed through combinatorics, raising some important questions about how macroevolutionary patterns might self-organize spatially. One of th

SUBMITTER: Smith CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10672127 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature