Genetic homogeneity is neither necessary nor sufficient for organismic individuality; functional integration is more important

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• Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.finding0.838
  Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.
• Functional relationships necessary for evolutionary individuality are the same as those required for organismic individuality and constitute cognitive architectures.hypothesis0.836
• Genetic identity is insufficient to define biological individuality.claim0.835
  Argues against purely genetic definitions of the self.
• The kind of relationships necessary to produce evolutionary individuality – the generation and heritability of fitness differences at the collective level – are the same as those required to produce organismic individuality – the information integration and collective action characteristic of a self.claim0.835
  Core conjecture linking evolutionary and organismic individuality.
• For a new level of individuality to have causal role as evolutionary unit, heritable fitness differences must be non-aggregative (not decomposable into lower-level differences).claim0.818
  Core claim: monotonic non-linearities are insufficient; evolutionary outcomes must change depending on context.
• Acting with unity of purpose in multicellular organisms does not require genetic homogeneityclaim0.818
• Is Functional Integration More Important Than Genetic Relatednessquestion0.816
• We hypothesize that evolutionary individuality, organismic individuality and cognition are coextensive.hypothesis0.805
  Strong unification proposal.