Genetics incorporated into a two trophic level species-species interaction model allows the populations of species to evolve.
The system enters a regime where the extinction of species follows an erratic pattern in time and appears chaotic to the eye.
Quantitative measurements suggest that the dynamics of the model exhibits self organised criticality. Fourier Transform analysis
of the time series and autocorrelation function for the population data, as well as the distribution of lineage sizes and
longevity of lineages, all show power law behavior. The lineages are the analogue of avalanches in other models of self organised
criticality
Key words trophic level - biological extinction - Lotka-Volterra systems - fossil record - Fourier transform