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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

THE ENTANGLED BANK. "Although Darwin’s (1859) classic ‘entangled bank’ of species ‘dependent on each other in so complex a manner’ is often referred to in food web research, Darwin was referring to a wide variety of interactions in addition to feeding, e.g. bees pollinating flowers, shrubs providing shelter for other species and trees providing nesting habitat for birds." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01732.x/full View in LinkedIn

"ORGANISMS EATING EACH OTHER are only one of many types of well documented and important interactions among species." Simply put, deeply unpacked. https://lnkd.in/da5D-GT View in LinkedIn

THE VAST MAJORITY OF LIVING ORGANISMS on planet earth eat photons from the sun as their primary energy source, any way that you wish to count them. By biomass. By noses. View in LinkedIn