英语语法问题？

四级真题：Brain scientists call this effect "asymmetric dominance" and it means that people gravitate toward the choice nearest a clearly inferior option.这段话中的nearest a clearly inferior option这个结构好奇怪啊，为什么不在nearest后面加个to？这里是什么用法？在我对于这句话的理解是the choice (which is) nearest to a clearly inferior option.