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The group covariance effect and fitness trade-offs during evolutionary transitions in individuality.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Jun 2006

Michod Richard E

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Transforming our understanding of life is the realization that evolution occurs not only among individuals within populations but also through the integration of groups of preexisting individuals into a new higher-level individual, that is, through evolutionary transitions in individuality. During evolutionary transitions (such as during the origin of gene networks, bacteria-like cells, eukaryotic cells,...

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PMID: 16751277
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0601080103
PMCID: PMC1482575

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