Steven N Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 6838440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven N Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven N |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS S N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3728-0101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Addressing Polymorphism in Linguistic Phylogenetics
Understanding how languages change is important not only for the reconstruction of protolanguages and for estimating diversification dates (i.e. the dates when languages split), but also for the inference of evolutionary trees (or phylogenetic networks) of language families. We propose a parametric model of language change that addresses lexical polymorphism (two or more words for a given basic meaning) based on what is known about how languages …
An experimental study comparing linguistic phylogenetic reconstruction methods
This paper reports a simulation study comparing and evaluating the performance of different linguistic phylogeny reconstruction methods on model datasets for which the true trees are known. UPGMA performed least well, then (in ascending order) neighbor joining, the method of Gray & Atkinson and finally maximum parsimony. Weighting characters greatly improves the accuracy of maximum parsimony and maximum compatibility if the characters with high w…
Vital Rates from the Action of Mutation Accumulation
New models for evolutionary processes of mutation accumulation allow hypotheses about the age-specificity of mutational effects to be translated into predictions of heterogeneous population hazard functions. We apply these models to questions in the biodemography of longevity, including proposed explanations of Gompertz hazards and mortality plateaus
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Vital Rates from the Action of Mutation Accumulation
New models for evolutionary processes of mutation accumulation allow hypotheses about the age-specificity of mutational effects to be translated into predictions of heterogeneous population hazard functions. We apply these models to questions in the biodemography of longevity, including proposed explanations of Gompertz hazards and mortality plateaus
An experimental study comparing linguistic phylogenetic reconstruction methods
This paper reports a simulation study comparing and evaluating the performance of different linguistic phylogeny reconstruction methods on model datasets for which the true trees are known. UPGMA performed least well, then (in ascending order) neighbor joining, the method of Gray & Atkinson and finally maximum parsimony. Weighting characters greatly improves the accuracy of maximum parsimony and maximum compatibility if the characters with high w…
Addressing Polymorphism in Linguistic Phylogenetics
Understanding how languages change is important not only for the reconstruction of protolanguages and for estimating diversification dates (i.e. the dates when languages split), but also for the inference of evolutionary trees (or phylogenetic networks) of language families. We propose a parametric model of language change that addresses lexical polymorphism (two or more words for a given basic meaning) based on what is known about how languages …
Biology (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Phylogenetic tree (2 works) · Statistics (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Algorithm (1 work) · Algorithms and Data Compression (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)