Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Natural Selection in the Wake of Catastrophe
Jinghan Lin, Omer Granek, Joshua Sodicoff…·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.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.08.730870