Punctuated-equilibrium model of biological evolution is also a self-organized-criticality model of earthquakes
- 1 September 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 52 (3) , 3232-3233
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.52.3232
Abstract
Bak and Sneppen proposed a self-organized-criticality model to explain the punctuated equilibrium of biological evolution. The model, as it is, is a good self-organized-criticality model of earthquakes. Real earthquakes satisfy the required conditions of criticality; that is, power laws in (1) the size distribution of earthquakes, and (2) both the spatial and the temporal correlation functions.Keywords
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