The Single Helix</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="The Single Helix"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="The,Single,Helix"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">25-11-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>The Single Helix</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_5Y5nzQAsOQqrIFqWVNdt_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (The Independent): Humanity breaks a golden rule of science known as Zipf's law, named after a Harvard professor of linguistics, which basically says that the probability of occurrence of words in a book, or many other items, starts high and tapers off. <br>The reason the human population breaks the golden rule of Zipf is that, for an animal with our body weight, we are about 10,000 times more abundant than we should be. It is a stark reminder of just how odd we are in terms of the other species that share our living space. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article329124.ece " target="blank">enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article329124.ece </a> <br> <br>The Single Helix, by Steve Jones <br>Little, Brown £12.99 (321pp) £11.99 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show