ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] Raup and Sepkoski1 have very recently presented evidence for an approximate cyclicity in marine mass extinctions over the past 250 Myr. Fourier analysis of their data showed a dominant periodicity of 30 Myr, a best-fit curve yielded a cycle of 26 Myr, and a non-parametric test (previously developed ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/308709a0