Neutral Models in Biology

Introduction: Neutral Models as a Biological Strategy, Matthew H. Nitecki and Antoni Hoffman PART I: Molecular and Genetic Models 1. Neutral Models in Molecular Evolution, James F. Crow, University of Wisconsin 2. False Models as Means to Truer Theories, William C. Wimsatt, University of Chicago 3. Self Organization, Selective Adaptation, and Its Limits: A New Pattern of Inference in Evolution and Development, Stuart A. Kauffman, University of Pennsylvania PART II: Ecological Models 4. How to be Objective in Community Studies, L.B. Slobodkin, State University of New York at Stony Brook 5. On the Use of Null Hypotheses in Biogeography, Paul H. Harvey, University of Oxford PART III: Paleontological Models 6. Neutral Models in Paleobiology, David M. Raup, University of Chicago 7. Neutral Model of Taxonomic Diversification in the Phanerozoic: A Methodological Discussion, Antoni Hoffman, Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences 8. Testing Hypotheses or Fitting Models: Another Look at Mass Extinctions, Stephen M. Stigler, University of Chicago