Published online 4 June 2008 | Nature 453, 717-718 (2008) |
doi:10.1038/453717a

Palaeobiology: The Cambrian smorgasbord
Animal behaviour is an endless challenge to mathematical modellers. In the
first of two features, Mark Buchanan looks at how a mathematical principle
from physics might be able to explain patterns of movement. In this, the
second, Arran Frood asks what current models can teach us about ecological
networks half a billion years old.

Arran Frood

It began, appropriately enough for research into food webs, over lunch. And
appropriately for ambitious and interdisciplinary research, that lunch in
2001 was at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, an...

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