The foundations of bet hedging

Bengt Autzen

doi:10.1007/s10539-024-09970-0

The foundations of bet hedging

Bengt Autzen

School of Society, Politics and Ethics

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Abstract

The paper revisits the conceptual foundations of bet hedging in evolutionary biology. The aims of the paper are twofold. First, the paper highlights some problems associated with the orthodox definition of bet hedging found in the biological literature and the more liberal notion of bet hedging recently proposed by Yasui (Ecol Res 37:406–420, 2022). Second, the paper proposes a richer taxonomy for classifying evolutionary responses to unpredictable environmental variance.

Original language	English
Article number	31
Journal	Biology and Philosophy
Volume	39
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-024-09970-0
Publication status	Published - Dec 2024

Keywords

Bet hedging
Diversification
Evolutionary biology
Geometric mean
Risk

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