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David A. Kessler

Researcher at United States Naval Research Laboratory

Publications -  378
Citations -  10682

David A. Kessler is an academic researcher from United States Naval Research Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Instability. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 364 publications receiving 9669 citations. Previous affiliations of David A. Kessler include University of Michigan & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Confluent and nonconfluent phases in a model of cell tissue

TL;DR: This work generalizes the Voronoi-based cellular model so as to allow zero or partial contact between cells in an open system, and identifies several phases, two of which were found in previous studies that imposed confluency but others that are novel.
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Model for macroevolutionary dynamics

TL;DR: Fitted extinction rates for large clades are close to speciation rates, consistent with high rates of species turnover and the relatively slow change in diversity observed in the fossil record, and the SEO model generally supports the consistency of generic boundaries based on morphological differences between species and provides a comparator for rates of lineage splitting and morphological evolution.
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Universal features of surname distribution in a subsample of a growing population

TL;DR: Surname statistics for the US in 1790 and 2000 and for Norway in 2008 are analyzed in the light of the theory and show satisfactory agreement, when the time-dependence of the growth rate is taken into account for the two contemporary data sets.
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Money and prices in the Early Roman Empire

TL;DR: The authors examined monetization in the early Roman Empire by considering money as a unit of account and found that widespread use of prices indicates widespread monetization, and that a consistent set of prices for wheat indicates that this monetization encouraged trade to grow across the Mediterranean.