SUPERORGANISM. “A realization of recent years is that mutant swarms are not mere collections of mutants ranked by a mutation-selection balance that act independently of each other. Rather, very often the mutant ensemble acts as a unit of selection due to interactions among its members. The result of these interactions is that evolution operates at the level of the population, a process often called ‘group selection”.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022