My understanding was the typical explanation was antagonistic pleiotropy, but I don’t know whether that’s the consensus view.
This seems to have the name ‘pathogen control hypothesis’ in the literature—see review. I think it has all the hallmarks of a good predictive hypothesis, but I’d really want to see some simulations of which parameter scenarios induce selection this way.
They keywords are much appreciated. That second link is only from 2022! I wonder if anybody suggested this in like 1900. Edit: some of the citations are from very long ago
My understanding was the typical explanation was antagonistic pleiotropy, but I don’t know whether that’s the consensus view.
This seems to have the name ‘pathogen control hypothesis’ in the literature—see review. I think it has all the hallmarks of a good predictive hypothesis, but I’d really want to see some simulations of which parameter scenarios induce selection this way.
They keywords are much appreciated. That second link is only from 2022! I wonder if anybody suggested this in like 1900. Edit: some of the citations are from very long ago