Age Effects in the Extinction of Planktonic Foraminifera: A New Look at Van Valen's Red Queen Hypothesis

• Other Authors: Wiltshire, Jelani (authoraut), Huffer, Fred (professor directing dissertation), Parker, William (university representative), Chicken, Eric (committee member), Sinha, Debajyoti (committee member), Department of Statistics (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University 2010
• Subjects: Statistics; Sinha; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A169172/datastream/TN/view/Age%20Effects%20in%20the%20Extinction%20of%20Planktonic%20Foraminifera.jpg

Van Valen's Red Queen hypothesis states that within a homogeneous taxonomic group the age is statistically independent of the rate of extinction. The case of the Red Queen hypothesis being addressed here is when the homogeneous taxonomic group is a group of similar species. Since Van Valen'...