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which approaches a fixed value of 1 + a/b as t grows without bound, and
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- [3] Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli ↗
- [14] They're back! ↗
- [2] Long-Term Dynamics of Adaptation in Asexual Populations ↗
- [13] The E. Coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment Is The Longest-Running Study Of Its Kind, And It's Been Going For 80,000 Generations ↗
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Equation 2 · Evolutionary Biology
Seventy-Five Thousand Generations of E. coli, and Counting
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which approaches a fixed value of 1 + a/b as t grows without bound, and
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