Has anyone here come across the work of Douglas Rohde modelling human
populations? It was featured in Slashdot today, but they're a bit
behind the times, as the work was actually published as a letter to Nature back
in 2004:
Douglas L. T. Rohde1, Steve Olson2 and Joseph T. Chang3 "Modelling the
recent common ancestry of all living humans" Nature 431, 562-566 (30 September 2004)
Douglas's homepage has a draft MS outlining the work - see it here:
http://tedlab.mit.edu/~dr/Anyway, the point I want to raise is this looks like an agent-based
model with up to 55 million agents! That's an order of magnitude
bigger than anything I've attempted, so I'm impressed!
Cheers
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