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Knowledge graph centered on best of a bad lot mechanism with 32 nodes and 115 connections. Top connected: Crested Butte, Beetles, Ambystoma mavortium, phenotypic plasticity, benthic invertebrates.
Paedomorphosis becomes the preferred life strategy when growing conditions such as prey abundance, water temperature, and population density are poor, so individuals opt to cut losses and become sexually mature while retaining juvenile aquatic traits