The convergence paragraph rewritten as a natural literature entry: the
drift identification is stated as a fact of the field, made repeatedly
and independently (pre-deep-learning inference chains; LLM text
ecosystems; the first-extinction law; quantitative-genetic form), its
multiplicity presented as a property of the idea rather than a claim
about us; the pivot is positive (population genetics is a theory of what
maintains populations despite decay, and this paper develops that fuller
structure) instead of defensive ("what none of that parallel work
develops"). "We reached independently", "priority of publication", and
"convergence we take as support" removed from the abstract and the
Discussion ledger as well. Refs 22-25 renumbered to the new textual
(chronological) order; citation invariant re-verified (1..66). Lesson
recorded: internal strategic deliberations must not surface in
reader-facing prose — confident papers situate, they do not litigate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
Giorgio Gilestro
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