We consider inference for demographic models and parameters based upon postprocessing the output of an MCMC method that generates samples of genealogical trees (from the posterior distribution for a specific prior distribution of the genealogy). This approach has the advantage of taking account of the uncertainty in the inference for the tree when making inferences about the demographic model a...

After a critical examination of several attempts to characterize the Analytic tradition in philosophy, in the book here discussed Hanjo Glock goes on to contend thatAnalytic Philosophy is “a tradition that is held together both by ties of influence and by a family of partially overlapping features”. Here I question the need to appeal to a“family resemblance” component, arguing inste...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. This chapter will examine the performance of Analogator in the three domains introduced in Chapter 1: the letter-part, geometric-spatial, and family tree domains. All three problem types will use the SRN architecture and the recurrent figure-grou...

The image that best expresses Darwin's thinking is the tree of life. However, Darwin's human evolutionary tree lacked almost everything because only the Neanderthals were known at the time and they were considered one extreme expression of our own species. Darwin believed that the root of the human tree was very deep and in Africa. It was not until 1962 that the root was shown to be much more r...

A special relational structure, called genealogical tree, is introduced; its social interpretation and geometrical realizations are discussed. The numbers Cn,k of all abstract genealogical trees with exactly n+1 nodes and k leaves is found by means of enumeration of code words. For each n, the Cn,k form a partition of the n-th Catalan numer Cn, that means Cn,1 + Cn,2 + · · ·+ Cn,n = Cn.