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Manuscript evolution

Christopher J. Howe, Adrian C. Barbrook, Matthew Spencer et al., 2001. Trends in Genetics.

Argues that the methods of evolutionary biology can trace how manuscripts were copied from one another, treating scribal variants like mutations.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1016/s0168-9525(00)02210-1Checked against the original0

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The bioinformatics and signal-processing survey cites it for applying phylogenetic methods to texts.

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Howe, C. J., Barbrook, A. C., Spencer, M., Robinson, P., Bordalejo, B., & Mooney, L. R. (2001). Manuscript evolution. Trends in Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-9525(00)02210-1
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