What Is Bet-Hedging?¶
Seger, J., & Brockmann, H. J. (1987). What Is Bet-Hedging?. Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology, 4, 182-211.
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Primes¶
- Minimax Strategy
- And in biology, bet-hedging strategies favoring guaranteed survival of the worst season read as minimax-like.
This sourceDefines evolutionary bet-hedging as sacrificing mean fitness to reduce fitness variance — favoring guaranteed survival of the worst season, a minimax-like strategy.
- And in biology, bet-hedging strategies favoring guaranteed survival of the worst season read as minimax-like.
- Mixed Strategy
- In biology bet-hedging strategies (persister cells, variable foraging, frequency-dependent polymorphisms) are biological mixed strategies against environmental unpredictability and against parasites, though the "adversary" here is sometimes an impersonal environment rather than a strategic opponent.
This sourceDefines bet-hedging as a strategy of randomized phenotypes against environmental unpredictability; the biological analogue of mixed strategies.
- In biology bet-hedging strategies (persister cells, variable foraging, frequency-dependent polymorphisms) are biological mixed strategies against environmental unpredictability and against parasites, though the "adversary" here is sometimes an impersonal environment rather than a strategic opponent.
Mechanisms¶
- Specialization Cohort Seeding
- Spreading bets across differentiated lines against an uncertain future is the logic evolutionary biology calls bet-hedging.
This sourceDefines evolutionary bet-hedging as diversification across uncertain future environments to reduce variance in outcomes.
- Spreading bets across differentiated lines against an uncertain future is the logic evolutionary biology calls bet-hedging.
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