Antifragility and Tinkering in Biology (and in Business) Flexibility Provides an Efficient Epigenetic Way to Manage Risk

The notion of antifragility, an attribute of systems that makes them thrive under variable conditions, has recently been proposed by Nassim Taleb in a business context. This idea requires the ability of such systems to ‘tinker’, i.e., to creatively respond to changes in their environment. A fairly o...

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Main Authors: Philippe M. Binder, Antoine Danchin, Stanislas Noria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-11-01
Series:Genes
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/2/4/998/