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Article: Declining volatility, a general property of disparate systems: from fossils, to stocks, to the stars

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 56
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2013
Page(s): 1297 – 1304
Author(s): Bruce S. Lieberman and Adrian L. Melott
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LIEBERMAN, B. S., MELOTT, A. L. 2013. Declining volatility, a general property of disparate systems: from fossils, to stocks, to the stars. Palaeontology, 56, 6, 1297–1304.

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