Natural Selection in the Wake of Catastrophe

Abstract excerpt

Living organisms, from bacteria to humans, are more likely to survive if their traits enhance fitness. In populations well adapted to their environmental niches, natural selection proceeds via rarely beneficial mutations. But when a catastrophe wipes out niche diversity, sudden adaptation often follows. Here, we present a data-validated theory of natural selection in the wake of catastrophe and unveil a simple law...

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• Bacteria
• Bacterial Infections
• Computer Simulation
• Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
• Drug Resistance, Bacterial
• Environment
• Poisson Distribution
• Probability

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Literature Corpus work

a1702f69-8adb-5865-bf68-4e7fb82bbf84

DOI

10.64898/2026.06.08.730870