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.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Chaudhuri, Indranath ; Bose, Indrani
Published in:	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 270.1999, 1, p. 63-68
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Punctuated equilibrium \| Bacterial evolution

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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