ArticleScientific reports2016
A Paradoxical Evolutionary Mechanism in Stochastically Switching Environments.
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- Optimizing crop rotations via Parrondo's paradox for sustainable agriculture.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- An alternating active-dormitive strategy enables disadvantaged prey to outcompete the perennially active prey through Parrondo's paradox.BMC biology · 2021Article
- Making the most of potential: potential games and genotypic convergence.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Does Cancer Biology Rely on Parrondo's Principles?Cancers · 2021Review
- Generalized Solutions of Parrondo's Games.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2020Article
- Cooperate or Not Cooperate in Predictable but Periodically Varying Situations? Cooperation in Fast Oscillating Environment.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2020Article
- Predator Dormancy is a Stable Adaptive Strategy due to Parrondo's Paradox.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2020Article
- Reply to Cheong et al.: Unicellular survival precludes Parrondo's paradox.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Nomadic-colonial life strategies enable paradoxical survival and growth despite habitat destruction.eLife · 2017Article
- Effects of behavioral patterns and network topology structures on Parrondo's paradox.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
Organisms with environmental sensors that guide survival are considered more likely to be favored by natural selection if they possess more accurate sensors. In this paper, we develop a theoretical model which shows that under certain conditions of environmental stochasticity, selection actually favors sensors of lower accuracy. An analogy between this counter-intuitive phenomenon and the well-known Parrondo's paradox is suggested.
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