David Sankoff & J. Kruskal, “Time Warps, String Edits, and Macromolecules”, 1999.

Morris Swadesh, “The Origin & Diversification of Languages”, 1968 was the topic of another blog post. 

Here I present: David Sankoff & J. Kruskal, “Time Warps, String Edits, & Macromolecules: The Theory & Practice of Sequence Comparison”, 1999.  

 The “Table of Contents” of the book is shown BELOW.

Here I presented: David Sankoff & J. Kruskal, “Time Warps, String Edits, & Macromolecules: The Theory & Practice of Sequence Comparison”, 1999.  

SUMMARY.

 The book consists of seventeen (17) chapters divided into five parts (5), listed BELOW.

Part 1. “Macromolecular Sequences”.

Part 2. “Time-Warping, Continuous Functions, and Speech Processing”.

Part 3. “Variations on a Theme: Algorithms for Related Problems”.

Part 4. “Computational Complexity”.

Part 5. “Random Sequences”.

This is a statistical methods book for sequence comparison.  The sequence can be languages words, macromolecules (DNA), etcetera.

It is a useful reference to the literature of the subject.

Human population can be studied as ABC (languages) and ATGC (dna molecules); and, sequence comparisons are important in human studies.

Morris Swadesh, “The Origin & Diversification of Languages”, 1968 was the topic of an earlier blog post.