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A new evolutionary perspective on the nature of the individual

The evolution of individuality was first systematically addressed in a very influential book by Leo Buss in 1987.

Diethard Tautz Diethard Tautz

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From one to many: parallels between the origins of multicellularity and social behaviour

When a unit of description makes way for a second unit that consists of many members of the first, the notion of individuality, which initially referred to the ‘one’, now refers to the ‘many’.

Vidyanand Nanjundiah Vidyanand Nanjundiah
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