Forging an evolutionary individual from separate replicators
A central puzzle in the evolution of individuality is the origin of heredity. Egalitarian transitions integrate formerly independent replicators into a higher-level individual, but this requires the collective to reproduce faithfully. Whether such heredity can evolve as a consequence of selection, rather than being its precondition, has lacked experimental investigation. We engineered yeast to…
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