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A GREATER WHOLE. "These are not just changes in the characteristics of an existing evolutionary entity, but the result of changes to the reproductive relationships between evolutionary entities such that “entities that were capable of independent replication before the transition can replicate only as part of a larger whole after the transition” (Maynard Smith and Szathmáry 1995)." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

A GREATER WHOLE. "These are not just changes in the characteristics of an existing evolutionary entity, but the result of changes to the reproductive relationships between evolutionary entities such that “entities that were capable of independent replication before the transition can replicate only as part of a larger whole after the transition” (Maynard Smith and Szathmáry 1995)." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION ITSELF. "Evolution has repeatedly reinvented itself—creating new evolutionary units at successive scales of biological organisation, e.g. from self-replicating molecules, to chromosomes, to simple cells, to multi-organelle eukaryote cells, to multicellular organisms, to eusocial groups." https://lnkd.in/dTqS4ZN View in LinkedIn

PARENTAL GENETIC CLUES. "The evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity relies on the presence of cues that enable organisms to adjust their phenotype to match local conditions. Although mostly studied with respect to nonsocial cues, it is also possible that parents transmit information about the environment to their offspring." https://lnkd.in/djhmkSP View in LinkedIn

SYNTHIA. "Synthetic biology is likely to move from construction of new biochemical pathways towards construction of entirely novel organisms." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATORY CONDITIONS. "We present the case that all of these behaviours that seem impossible for evolutionary systems are possible, and that necessary and sufficient conditions can be characterised." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

ANTHROPOCENE ERA. "It has been proposed that the current geological epoch should be christened the Anthropocene, distinguished from the Holocene because human-driven alterations to biogeochemistry are large enough to leave clear signals in the geological record." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

NO ANTICIPATORY EVOLUTION EXISTS? "In each case, the conventional answer seems to be—it cannot. It is not possible for evolution by natural selection to produce adaptations for an environment it has not yet encountered, to produce organisation at the system level without selection at the system level, or to create new units that are adaptive for a level of selection that does not yet exist." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

A MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENT. "In this case, non-biological information would be archived in a biological repository. Consequently, humans are embarking on fundamental extensions to the flow of information circumscribed by the Central Dogma. This is a major development in the course of evolutionary history." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATORY EVOLUTION. "Can evolution at one level of organisation favour the creation of heritable evolutionary units that are adaptive at a higher-level of organisation? That is, can the evolution of reproductive organisations find new heritable units that are suitable for responding to selection at the higher level of organisation before that level of organisation exists?" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn