Whale song is something we humans listen to when relaxing – but new research has shown that, as a form of communication, it ain't messing around. A new study has found that certain whale species' ...

This is known as Zipf's law. Researchers have hunted for evidence of this pattern in communication among other species, but until now no other examples have been found. We discovered that the same ...

This paper analyzes one of the classic empirical regularities in the literature on firm growth: Zipf's law of the firm size distribution. Firstly, using firm-level data and decomposing the sample by ...