Abstract:Evolutionary bet-hedging (EBT) is a theory describing a trade-off between the mean and the variance of fitness. It explains how in varying environments, lower-quality adaptations to a broader diversity of conditions (reduced mean fitness with low variances) can be evolutionary favored over an ideal adaptation to a specific narrow condition (high mean fitness with higher variances)1-5. Examples of EBT include strategies governing germination of desert annual plants, egg size variability of birds, metabolic swit… Show more
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