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标题：A Paradoxical Evolutionary Mechanism in Stochastically Switching Environments
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作者：Kang Hao Cheong ; Zong Xuan Tan ; Neng-gang Xie 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2016
卷号：6
期号：1
DOI：10.1038/srep34889
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：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.