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Major evolutionary transitions in individuality.
Paper summary
Distinguishes forming a cooperative group from transforming it into an integrated evolutionary individual. The review analyzes roles of communication, dependence, division of labor, conflict, and ecological conditions in major transitions.
Relevance to the project
Central to association analysis: contact membership alone is weak evidence of individuality. Measure integrated causal functions and within-group conflict under interventions.
The reviewed biological conditions are not automatic necessary rules for every simulated system.
Source record
- Reference ID
- doi-10-1073-pnas-1421402112
- Archived version
- PMC article HTML; manuscript/publication label retained in source
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/doi-10-1073-pnas-1421402112/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.