Using Claude Shannon's formulas for measuring the redundancy of symbol
tokens in message strings , and given a large enough text to work with, it
is possible to identify the language of a text simply from the statistical
analysis of token use alone, since all languages have unique "signatures" of
redundancy in symbol token use. It strikes me as possible that different
organisms (or species or genuses) may also have characteristic redundancy
levels in their genome, and I was wondering if anyone knows of statistical
studies of this kind.