Choosing fitness-enhancing innovations can be detrimental under fluctuating environments.

The ability to predict the consequences of one's behavior in a particular environment is a mechanism for adaptation. In the absence of any cost to this activity, we might expect agents to choose behaviors that maximize their fitness, an example of directed innovation. This is in contrast to bli...

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Main Authors: Julian Z Xue, Andre Costopoulos, Frederic Guichard
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Acceso en liña:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3219637?pdf=render