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Individuality and adaptation across levels of selection: how shall we name and generalize the unit of Darwinism?
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Oct 1999
Gould S J, Lloyd E A
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Two major clarifications have greatly abetted the understanding and fruitful expansion of the theory of natural selection in recent years: the acknowledgment that interactors, not replicators, constitute the causal unit of selection; and the recognition that interactors are Darwinian individuals, and that such individuals exist with potency at several levels of organization (genes, organisms, demes, and species...
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