Airedale comments on Summer vs Winter Strategies - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: whpearson 20 May 2010 12:31AM

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Comment author: Airedale 20 May 2010 01:37:03AM 2 points [-]

Perhaps not completely literally, but all the discussion of climate suggests that that there is some intended connection to the seasons.

Comment author: whpearson 20 May 2010 08:41:52AM *  0 points [-]

It is more that places with distinct seasons favour different strategies than places with less distinct (e.g the equator). It is more resource variance than the actual amount of resources, as the human population will expand or contract to fit the niche. But when there are regular shocks to the amount of resources (bad winters) that cause change in population levels different strategies might be more evolutionarily adaptive.