The evolution of adaptive strategies to deal with variable environments
Petak, Csenge Frati, Lapo
Petak, Csenge
Frati, Lapo
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What do you do when the environment varies frequently and unpredictably? You can hedge your bets! In nature, there are two ways of being a bet-hedger. There are generalists that are not particularly good, but not particularly bad either in the various possible environments. Alternatively, individuals can hedge their bets by creating a phenotypically diverse set of offspring such that at least some of them will be fit no matter how the environment changes. We have created a simple computational model of adaptation in a variable environment and surprisingly, without any direct incentive, we observed the evolution of both strategies.
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2023-01-01
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