A decade ago doing some bioinformatics research I discovered that if you use Lempel-Ziv algorithm on the genetic sequences of many organisms, you get a sequence of "words" (of length 1 to n) that has a power law that matches the power law of displayed by human languages, and crucially is different to the "power law" you get from random, or almost random, sequences.
I submitted two papers about this, both were rejected. Not surprising I guess, my first papers ever!
It was also fascinating to me how complex (and how much larger) plant genomes are compared to animals. Plants have enormous genomes, almost making me wonder, what do they know that we don't?
I submitted two papers about this, both were rejected. Not surprising I guess, my first papers ever!
It was also fascinating to me how complex (and how much larger) plant genomes are compared to animals. Plants have enormous genomes, almost making me wonder, what do they know that we don't?
I think the answer could be--a lot! :)