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Indo-European languages tree by Levenshtein distance
Maurizio Serva, Filippo Petroni
The evolution of languages closely resembles the evolution of haploid organisms. This similarity has been recently exploited \cite{GA,GJ} to construct language trees. The key point…
Mitochondrial Dna Replacement Versus Nuclear Dna Persistence
Maurizio Serva
In this paper we consider two populations whose generations are not overlapping and whose size is large. The number of males and females in both populations is constant. Any genera…
Time and foreign exchange markets
Luca Berardi, Maurizio Serva
The definition of time is still an open question when one deals with high frequency time series. If time is simply the calendar time, prices can be modeled as continuous random pro…
On the Genealogy of Populations: Trees, Branches and Offsprings
Maurizio Serva
We consider a neutral haploid population whose generations are not overlapping and whose size is large and constantly of individuals. Any generation is replaced by a new one an…
Spot foreign exchange market and time series
Filippo Petroni, Maurizio Serva
We investigate high frequency price dynamics in foreign exchange market using data from Reuters information system (the dataset has been provided to us by Ols en & Associates). In…
The human family tree and the Neandertal branch
Maurizio Serva
We consider a large population of asexually reproducing individuals in absence of selective pressure. The population size is maintained constant by the environment. We find out tha…