compression/expansion cycle of metazoan organisms

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• Major evolutionary transitions—from prokaryotes to eukaryotes to multicellular life—are structure-preserving transformations at the scale of life-organization itself.claim0.724
• The large-scale morphological goals of an organism override and harness the local competencies of individual cells to adaptively navigate morphospace.claim0.715
  Describes top-down control in morphogenesis.
• All organisms are collectives at multiple levels: from collections of active molecules in a cell, to collections of cells in a multicellular organism, to collections of tissues.claim0.707
  Extends the collective view to all biological individuals.
• Living processes are by nature morphogenetic; they are aimed at creating positive space and making form coherent.claim0.703
  Core definition of living process as intentionally form-creating, in contrast to fragmented modern processes.
• Target morphology shifts occur despite the fact that all of the individual cells have unaltered normal genomes, showing that competent subunits can be pushed to implement diverse organism-scale goals by physiological signals.claim0.702
  Highlights the non-genetic control of large-scale anatomy.
• What Mechanisms Allow Cells To Scale Up Fromquestion0.702
• Xenobots and other liberated cellular collectives reveal hidden morphogenetic capabilities normally suppressed by instructive signaling of other cells.claim0.702
  Interpretive claim about the meaning of Xenobot behaviors.
• Cells exhibit generalization in physiological space, recognizing novel stressors as members of familiar classes to deploy transcriptional solutions.hypothesis0.700
  Predicts that cells can categorize perturbations and mount appropriate, not just hardwired, responses.