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Particle plasticity is a concrete individuation mechanism that enables access to non-decomposable components of collective fitness

Authors argue plasticity is key to creating heritable collective fitness differences without particle-level selection conflict

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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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Natural selection can evolve phenotypic plasticity that solves division of labour games in two-player collectives (Tudge et al. 2016)
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Shows plasticity as solution to HFHF in minimal models with homogeneous genotypes

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H1: Individuality requires a dynamical process (development), mediating the plastic expression of components in the context of one another, with the specific form of computing a collective character that is a non-linearly separable function of (embryonic) particle characters, with the effect of coordinating reproduction based on this collective character.
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Main hypothesis about the architecture of individuality

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