Punctuated equilibrium in an evolving bacterial population
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Punctuated equilibrium in an evolving bacterial population
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. There are two major schools of thought in evolutionary biology: gradualism which implies continuous evolutionary changes and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0378-4371
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4371(99)00123-5