The Role of Random Events in Extinction

This sounds like a good case for the catastrophicism versus evolution argument.

Thanks Milo,

I gave you a GA. I do still think, however, that this can be referenced in some way to the afore mentioned punctuated equilibrium theory as a sort of micro to the macro.

I wonder what the single cell beginners would think of ALL this?

MR. GUY

Yes, I agree . Looked at up close a photo is just a collection of small dots (pixels nowadays). but from a far enough away perspective, the image appears out of those dots. These guys are looking at single dots...

Thanks for the GA.

milo

A serious question. Have the mathematical programmers looked at this level of various catastrophic events on economies and their impact on world events? If not, perhaps they should be looking at how our current meltdown (and potential that associated future wars) will impact populations in the longer term.

You make a great point.

If instead of using the economic lens, we use a lense of ecology ( not grren politics but true ecology) then we could watch the rise and fall of various "populations" following their own sigmoidal growth curves.

The crash of any given "population" in the economy has its own real world and biological analogues in that their are more nimble "survivors" which supplant them and their function in the niche that they abandoned.

Right now the population of "over compensated didn't act in a responsible fiduciary way in understanding risk and consequences of their poor decisions fat cat CEO's and bankers is looking for a bit of a trim."

Meaning no disrespect to our own Del the cat, by the way.

milo