Yule's 1925 species-per-genus law reproduced in a 100,000-step simulation

3d ago · 7 min read · Part 80 of Forgotten Theories, a series re-testing old scientific claims with modern tools. Find the rest under the #forgotten-theories tag. In 1925, the statistician G. Udny Yule sat down with a dataset collected by the botanist J. C. Willis and wr...