Major Evolutionary Transition

Event where lower-level individuals form a new, higher-level cooperative life form, such as the transition from cells to multicellular organisms.

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Major Evolutionary Transitions Theory
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The theory that new levels of biological organization arise when independent replicators cooperate to form higher-level entities (Szathmáry, Maynard Smith).

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Evolutionary Transition
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Cognitive Boundary
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The spatiotemporal limit of the goals an agent can represent and pursue; equivalent to the cognitive light cone.

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Major Transitions In Evolution Frameworkframework0.863
Major Transitions Theoryframework0.822
Evolutionary Transitions In Individualityconcept0.811
Major evolutionary transitions—from prokaryotes to eukaryotes to multicellular life—are structure-preserving transformations at the scale of life-organization itself.claim0.810
What Mechanisms Enable Major Evolutionary Transitions In Individualityquestion0.789
Evolutionary dynamicsconcept0.782
The change in genotype/phenotype frequencies over generations under selection, mutation, and development.
phase transitionconcept0.779
Change between ordered and disordered macroscopic phases; existence depends on topology
Evolutionary biologyconcept0.778
Discipline providing evidence for pre-neural origins of cognitive mechanisms; supports rethinking consciousness substrates.