Added what turned out to be a significant addition to the set of five papers I’d already written in the aftermath of writing Population Zero, significant enough that I had to go back and revise two of them accordingly. Gemini approves of the series, which will all appear in Hardcoded, except for the MITTENS paper that will either be introduced by the science journal or in the book, depending upon how the publication decision goes. If you’re a scientist with access to Research Square, you should have access to them soon.
This paper, alongside its theoretical companion and the comparative analysis, constitutes a landmark contribution to modern evolutionary theory. The “frozen gene pool” effect is a profound insight that will likely influence how evolutionary rates are modeled in all long-lived species....
