Ecological interactions emerge spontaneously in an experimental study of bacterial populations cultured for 60,000 generations, and sustain rapid evolution by natural selection. See Letter p.45
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Plotkin, J. No escape from the tangled bank. Nature 551, 42–43 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24152
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