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EVOLVABILITY LIMITS. "Although it is clear that evolution can modify the parameters of variation, selection and inheritance, and this might facilitate evolvability, it is not at all clear that these organisations can be adaptations for increased evolvability." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

SCALE CHANGES. "Such features change the scale at which heritable variation in reproductive success is manifest, thus resulting in the evolution of new levels of Darwinian individuality." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

VARIOUS GROUP OPTIONS. "This may involve reproductive organisations that synchronise the transmission of information across generations (e.g. vertical transmission of symbionts; compartmentalisation of replicators; or linkage of replicating molecules into chromosomes), or restrict the channels of communication (e.g., bottle-necked life-cycle, germ-soma separation)." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

STEPPING IT UP. "These changes, i.e. changes that prevent independent replication, act to suppress fitness differences between individuals at one level of organisation and may provide opportunities for natural selection to create heritable fitness differences at a higher-level of organisation." 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

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