At the boundary between biological and cultural evolution: The origin of surname distributions

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dc.creatorManrubia, Susanna C.
dc.creatorZanette, Damian H.
dc.date2002-01-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:44:17Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:44:17Z
dc.descriptionSurnames 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. Exponentially growing and constant populations are investigated, and we study how different compositions of the founder populations can be observed in present-day diversity distributions. We analyse different quantities in the statistically stationary state, both through analytic and numerical methods. Our results compare favourably to field data for family sizes in several countries. We discuss the relationship between the distribution of surnames and the genetic diversity of a population.
dc.description29 pages, 7 figures, submitted to J. Theor. Biol
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201559
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201559
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/18861
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectPopulations and Evolution
dc.titleAt the boundary between biological and cultural evolution: The origin of surname distributions
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