Failure of the fittest: limits on asexual adaptation to changing environments

arXiv:2609.35933 · q-bio.PE · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

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Terminology

• Adaptation — 60× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Diffusion Processes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Stochastic Dynamics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• From stochastic individual-based models to free-boundary Hamilton-Jacobi equations
• Branching diffusion processes and spectral properties of Feynman-Kac semigroup

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