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🦗 Periodical Cicada Prime-Cycle Lab: Predator Overlap and Strain Selection

Why 13 and 17 years? A toy model of periodical cicada emergence against periodic predator peaks: gcd/lcm coincidence rates, long-run growth per period and replicator selection among 2 to 25 year strains.

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Why 13 and 17 years? A toy model of periodical cicada emergence against periodic predator peaks: gcd/lcm coincidence rates, long-run growth per period and replicator selection among 2 to 25 year strains.

CicadasPrime NumbersPredator AvoidanceEvolutionNumber Theory

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