Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Anticipation: an effective evolutionary strategy for a sub-optimal
  population in a cyclic environment   We built a two-state model of an asexually reproducing organism in a periodic
environment endowed with the capability to anticipate an upcoming environmental
change and undergo pre-emptive switching. By virtue of these anticipatory
transitions, the organism oscillates between its two states that is a time
$\theta$ out of sync with the environmental oscillation. We show that an
anticipation-capable organism increases its long-term fitness over an organism
that oscillates in-sync with the environment, provided $\theta$ does not exceed
a threshold. We also show that the long-term fitness is maximized for an
optimal anticipation time that decreases approximately as $1/n$, $n$ being the
number of cell divisions in time $T$. Furthermore, we demonstrate that optimal
"anticipators" outperforms "bet-hedgers" in the range of parameters considered.
For a sub-optimal ensemble of anticipators, anticipation performs better to
bet-hedging only when the variance in anticipation is small compared to the
mean and the rate of pre-emptive transition is high. Taken together, our work
suggests that anticipation increases overall fitness of an organism in a
periodic environment and it is a viable alternative to bet-hedging provided the
error in anticipation is small.

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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org