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A Darwinian approach to the origin of life cycles with group properties.

Theoretical population biology - 1 Jun 2015

Rashidi Armin, Shelton Deborah E, Michod Richard E

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A selective explanation for the evolution of multicellular organisms from unicellular ones requires knowledge of both selective pressures and factors affecting the response to selection. Understanding the response to selection is particularly challenging in the case of evolutionary transitions in individuality, because these transitions involve a shift in the very units of selection. We develop a conceptual...

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PMID: 25814207
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2015.03.003

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