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Punctuated equilibrium in an evolving bacterial population

Indranath Chaudhuri, Indrani Bose

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9902135

Abstract

Recently, Lenski et al have carried out an experiment on bacterial evolution. Their findings support the theory of punctuated equilibrium in biological evolution. We show that the M=2 Bak-Sneppen model can explain some of the experimental results in a qualitative manner.

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