June 1, 2003

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Chain Letters and Evolutionary Histories

A study of chain letters shows how to infer the family tree of anything that evolves over time, from biological genomes to languages to plagiarized schoolwork

By Charles H. Bennett, Ming Li and Bin Ma

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