Natural Selection in the Wake of Catastrophe
Jinghan Lin, Omer Granek, Joshua Sodicoff, Seppe Kuehn, David Pincus, Vincenzo Vitelli
This paper develops a data-validated theory of natural selection after catastrophe, showing mean fitness relaxes inversely with time and follows Levenberg-Marquardt optimization in E. coli.
bioRxiv · Jun 11, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology