Communication isn't rare in nature, but whale song features a statistical complexity that matches human speech, and that is ...

Applying the theories of Zipf's law, Gibrat's law, and scaling laws, the study first verified the universality of urban system laws in African cities and then focused on their specificity and the ...

Human languages follow a surprising law: the most frequent word is used twice as often as the second, three times as often as the third, and so on. This regularity, called Zipf's law, has just been ...

We first perform rank-size rule regression between the logarithms of total overnight stays of foreign and Japanese tourists and the logarithms of the rank order of municipalities and ascertain if Zipf ...