Natural selection can evolve phenotypic plasticity that solves division of labour games in two-player collectives (Tudge et al. 2016)

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• Developmental interactions required for evolutionary individuality must be able to coordinate solutions to non-decomposable functions (division of labour games)claim0.817
  Developmental process is identified as computing non-linearly separable collective phenotypes
• 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.claim0.805
  Core conjecture linking evolutionary and organismic individuality.
• For collectives to be meaningful evolutionary units, fitness interactions must be non-linearly separable, not merely non-aggregative.claim0.804
  Strengthens distinction between monotonic non-linear interactions (explanatorily redundant) and non-decomposable interactions (causally significant).
• Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.finding0.785
  Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.
• The evolutionary process contains an intelligence ratchet: as competency increases, selection struggles to see the structural genome, further driving selection for competency mechanisms.claim0.785
  Explains why planaria with messy genomes have robust morphologies.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.784
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• Multi-scale competency likely explains the remarkable evolvability of living forms because it flattens the fitness landscape, allowing mutations' negative effects to be buffered while positive effects accumulate.claim0.783
  Mechanistic claim connecting multi-scale competency architecture to evolutionary robustness
• Near-future systems will contain swarms of robots and organisms in which biological units reproduce and evolve while mechanical units self-replicate and evolve, making binary life/machine division impossible.hypothesis0.782
  Extreme future-pointing scenario used to argue binary categorization will become incoherent