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M A Deakin

Publications and source records attributed to M A Deakin.

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PubMed1990

The Gibbons speciation mechanism.

A mechanism of sympatric speciation first proposed by Gibbons (1979, Am. Nat. 114, 719-741) is analyzed and submitted to computer simulation. It is found that, in its original form, the mechanism does not bring about reproductive isolation, but that with relatively minor modification, it may be made to work as claimed.

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PubMed1990

Catastrophe modelling in the biological sciences.

Catastrophe Theory was developed in an attempt to provide a form of Mathematics particularly apt for applications in the biological sciences. It was claimed that while it could be applied in the more conventional "physical" way, it could also be applied in a new "metaphysical" way, derived from the Structuralism of Saussure in Linguistics and Lévi-Strauss in Anthropology. Since those early beginnings there have been many attempts to apply Catastrophe Theory to Biology, but these hopes cannot be said to have been fully realised. This paper will document and classify the work that has been done. It will be argued that, like other applied Mathematics, applied Catastrophe Theory works best where the underlying laws are securely known and precisely quantified, requiring those same guarantees as does any other branch of Mathematics when it confronts a real-life situation.

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