Reposted by Andrew Simons
Excited to share my first first-author paper from my master’s work at @carleton.ca , with @andrew-m-simons.bsky.social and Myron Smith!
We explored how constraints on adaptation can aid the persistence of bet-hedging traits in the short term.
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Avoiding dead ends: the experimental evolution of constraint as adaptation to environmental variation
Abstract. Environmental unpredictability can result in the evolution of bet-hedging traits, which maximize long-term fitness but are, by definition, subopt
