[PatrickHenry]

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[Doctor Stochastic]

Nice article. I'll check the original later today. I find it interesting (meaning I hadn't already thought of it) that mutations that occur on the boundaries spread more widely than those at the center. It would be fun to do a similar model with linguistic chances (the Great Vowel Shift, Grimm's Law, The Great Germanic Consonant Shift, etc.)

I wonder what they used for "neutral" migration (unpressured by population, etc.) I would guess that a diffusion (random walk) would be a reasonable migration model in the absence of barriers.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!