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cond-mat.stat-mech2002
Dynamics of text generation with realistic Zipf distribution
Damián H. Zanette, Marcelo A. Montemurro
We investigate the origin of Zipf's law for words in written texts by means of a stochastic dynamical model for text generation. The model incorporates both features related to the…
cond-mat.stat-mech2002
At the boundary between biological and cultural evolution: The origin of surname distributions
Susanna C. Manrubia, Damian H. Zanette
Surnames and nonrecombining alleles are inherited from a single parent in a highly similar way. A simple birth-death model with mutations can accurately describe this process. Expo…