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cs.CL2011★ 4 cited
Phylogeny and geometry of languages from normalized Levenshtein distance
Maurizio Serva
The idea that the distance among pairs of languages can be evaluated from lexical differences seems to have its roots in the work of the French explorer Dumont D'Urville. He collec…
q-bio.PE2011★ 3 cited
Extremely rare interbreeding events can explain Neanderthal DNA in modern humans
Armando G. M. Neves, Maurizio Serva
Considering the recent experimental discovery of Green et al that present day non-Africans have 1 to 4% of their nuclear DNA of Neanderthal origin, we propose here a model which is…
cs.CL2011
Malagasy Dialects and the Peopling of Madagascar
M. Serva, F. Petroni, D. Volchenkov +1
The origin of Malagasy DNA is half African and half Indonesian, nevertheless the Malagasy language, spoken by the entire population, belongs to the Austronesian family. The languag…