From groups to individuals [electronic resource] : evolution and emerging individuality / edited by Frédéric Bouchard and Philippe Huneman.

The biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of new collective individuals from associations of living beings. Our intuitive assumption that only organisms are the real individuals in the natural world is at odds with developments in cell biology, ecology, genetics, evolutionary bi...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via MIT Press)
Other Authors:	Bouchard, Frédéric, 1975- (Editor), Huneman, Philippe (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2013.
Series:	Vienna series in theoretical biology.
Subjects:	Biology > Philosophy. Organisms. Individuality. Group identity. Adaptation (Biology)