Major evolutionary transitions—from prokaryotes to eukaryotes to multicellular life—are structure-preserving transformations at the scale of life-organization itself.

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Causal emergence in biological systems
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Examines how macro-scale causal power exceeds micro-scale in living and learning systems.
Agential evolution & biological individuality
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Frames evolution as producing goal-directed, problem-solving agents across nested scales of individuality.
Evolutionary individuality and hierarchical agency
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Multi-level selection theory examining how non-aggregative fitness interactions enable higher-order units as genuine evolutionary agents, emphasizing problem-solving over predetermined mechanisms.

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Evolutionary transitions in individuality correspond to deep interaction structures or perhaps other mechanisms of multi-scale dynamics.hypothesis0.846
Concrete proposal about necessary architecture for ETIs.
Evolutionary transitions to new complex life forms mirror Alexander's levels of scale, each producing new nested centers with division of labor and interdependence.claim0.826
The large-scale morphological goals of an organism override and harness the local competencies of individual cells to adaptively navigate morphospace.claim0.815
Describes top-down control in morphogenesis.
Major Evolutionary Transitionconcept0.810
Event where lower-level individuals form a new, higher-level cooperative life form, such as the transition from cells to multicellular organisms.
Evolutionary transitions must be explained by bottom-up selection on existing lower-level units without presupposing higher-level unitclaim0.808
Major Evolutionary Transitions Theoryframework0.805
The theory that new levels of biological organization arise when independent replicators cooperate to form higher-level entities (Szathmáry, Maynard Smith).
If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.803
Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
Are there fundamentally different natural kinds, or major transitions, in the continuum of fused biological and technological systems?question0.801
The paper's central open question: whether essential distinctions remain after hybridization erases contingent ones

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