# Acknowledgement

## Acknowledgement

We thank Richard E. Lenski for permission to reproduce the original figure in Refs.  and . One of the author I.C. is supported by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India under Sanction No. 9/15(173)/96-EMR-I.

## Figure Captions

Relative fitness versus time in experiment  and simulation. A global average is taken over 2000 sites of the lattice to obtain the data points in simulation.

Relative fitness versus time in experiment  and simulation. A local average is taken over 40 sites in simulation. the experimental data points are taken every 100 generations.

Average cell size versus time in experiment  and simulation (global average).

Average cell size versus time in experiment  and simulation (local average).

Average fitness versus average cell size in experiment  and simulation.