> 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.