From Groups to Individuals Evolution and Emerging Individuality

Name: From Groups to Individuals Evolution and Emerging Individuality
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ISBN: 9780262018722

ISBN-10: 0262018721

ISBN-13: 9780262018722

Edition: 2013

Authors: Frï¿½dï¿½ric Bouchard, Philippe Huneman, Ellen Clarke, Peter Godfrey-smith, Charles J. Goodnight

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Our intuitive assumption that only organisms are the real individuals in the naturalworld is at odds with developments in cell biology, ecology, genetics, evolutionary biology, andother fields. Although organisms have served for centuries as nature's paradigmatic individuals,science suggests that organisms are only one of the many ways in which the natural world could beorganized. When living beings work together -- as in ant colonies, beehives, and bacteria-metazoansymbiosis -- new collective individuals can emerge. In this book, leading scholars consider thebiological and philosophical implications of the emergence of these new collective individuals fromassociations of living beings. The…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.31" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.342

Anupama Joshi is the Executive Director and Cofounder of the National Farm to School Network, a project of Tides Center (formerly based at the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College).Frï¿½dï¿½ric Bouchard is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Universitï¿½ deMontrï¿½al. Bouchard and Huneman (with other colleagues) founded the Consortium for the History andPhilosophy of Biology.



Series Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Organisms and Individuality



Darwinian Individuals




Defining the Individual




Species and Organisms: What Are the Problems?




Immunity and the Emergence of Individuality




Adaptation and Complex Individuals



Adaptation of Individuals and Groups




The Unit of Adaptation, the Emergence of Individuality, and the Loss of Evolutionary Sovereignty




Adaptations in Transitions: How to Make Sense of Adaptation When Beneficiaries Emerge Simultaneously with Benefits?




Groups and Collectives as Individuals



Groups, Individuals, and the Emergence of Sociality: The Case of Division of Labor




Colonies Are Individuals: Revisiting the Superorganism Revival




Superorganisms and Superindividuality: The Emergence of Individuality in a Social Insect Assemblage




What Is a Symbiotic Superindividual and How Do You Measure Its Fitness?



Contributors


Index