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From Groups to Individuals : Evolution and Emerging Individuality.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262313445
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Groups to IndividualsDDC classification:
  • 570.1
LOC classification:
  • QH331.F885 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I ORGANISMS AND INDIVIDUALITY -- 1 Darwinian Individuals -- 2 Defining the Individual -- 3 Species and Organisms: What Are the Problems? -- 4 Immunity and the Emergence of Individuality -- II ADAPTATION AND COMPLEX INDIVIDUALS -- 5 Adaptation of Individuals and Groups -- 6 The Unit of Adaptation, the Emergence of Individuality, and the Loss of Evolutionary Sovereignty -- 7 Adaptations in Transitions: How to Make Sense of Adaptation When Beneficiaries Emerge Simultaneously with Benefits? -- III GROUPS AND COLLECTIVES AS INDIVIDUALS -- 8 Groups, Individuals, and the Emergence of Sociality: The Case of Division of Labor -- 9 Colonies Are Individuals: Revisiting the Superorganism Revival -- 10 Superorganisms and Superindividuality: The Emergence of Individuality in a Social Insect Assemblage -- 11 What Is a Symbiotic Superindividual and How Do You Measure Its Fitness? -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: The biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of new collective individuals from associations of living beings.
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Cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I ORGANISMS AND INDIVIDUALITY -- 1 Darwinian Individuals -- 2 Defining the Individual -- 3 Species and Organisms: What Are the Problems? -- 4 Immunity and the Emergence of Individuality -- II ADAPTATION AND COMPLEX INDIVIDUALS -- 5 Adaptation of Individuals and Groups -- 6 The Unit of Adaptation, the Emergence of Individuality, and the Loss of Evolutionary Sovereignty -- 7 Adaptations in Transitions: How to Make Sense of Adaptation When Beneficiaries Emerge Simultaneously with Benefits? -- III GROUPS AND COLLECTIVES AS INDIVIDUALS -- 8 Groups, Individuals, and the Emergence of Sociality: The Case of Division of Labor -- 9 Colonies Are Individuals: Revisiting the Superorganism Revival -- 10 Superorganisms and Superindividuality: The Emergence of Individuality in a Social Insect Assemblage -- 11 What Is a Symbiotic Superindividual and How Do You Measure Its Fitness? -- Contributors -- Index.

The biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of new collective individuals from associations of living beings.

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