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Organised structure of relationships between component parts causes them to work together, creating new organismic entity and evolutionary unit

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Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality

(2022) · Watson, Richard A. · Levin, Michael · Buckley, Christopher L.

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