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Experimental evolution of nascent multicellularity: Recognizing a Darwinian transition in individuality
2020-03-04
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Major evolutionary transitions in individuality, at any level of the biological hierarchy, occur when groups participate in Darwinian processes as units of selection in their own right. Identifying transitions in individuality can be problematic because apparent selection at one level of the biological hierarchy may be a by-product of selection occurring at another level. Here we discuss approaches to this “levels...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6b5ae457-e465-5f59-b201-1238773d178d
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.03.02.973792