Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of individuality. IV. Conflict mediation and evolvability in Volvox carteri.

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The continued well being of evolutionary individuals (units of selection and evolution) depends upon their evolvability, that is their capacity to generate and evolve adaptations at their level of organization, as well as their longer term capacity for diversifying into more complex evolutionary forms. During a transition from a lower- to higher-level individual, such as the transition between unicellular and...

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