Collective behavior and nongenetic inheritance allow bacterial populations to adapt to changing environments.

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Collective behaviors require coordination among a group of individuals. As a result, individuals that are too phenotypically different from the rest of the group can be left out, reducing heterogeneity, but increasing coordination. If individuals also reproduce, the offspring can have different phenotypes from their parent(s). This raises the question of how these two opposing processes-loss of diversity by...

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