Multicellular survival as a consequence of Parrondo’s paradox [Biological Sciences]

In the face of inevitable aging and death, Nelson and Masel (NM) (1) argue that alternating life history stages between multicellularity and unicellularity enable the survival of multicellular lineages. This is exactly parallel to the game-theoretic Parrondo's paradox (2), in which two individually losing strategies are temporally intercalated to yield...

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