Hedging One's Evolutionary Bets

Slatkin, M. (1974). Hedging One's Evolutionary Bets. Nature, 704-705.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1974

Pages

704-705

DOI

10.1038/250704b0

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/250704b0

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Mechanisms

• Cohort-Diversified Source Plan
  • The logic is the biologist's bet-hedging

    This sourceShows that in variable environments, diversified reproductive strategies can improve long-run fitness by hedging against uncertainty rather than concentrating all offspring in one condition.

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