Major Evolutionary Transitions Theory

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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Major Evolutionary Transition
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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 Transitions Theory
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Framework for analyzing interactions between autonomous evolutionary units showing fitness effect sign reversals.
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Concrete proposal about necessary architecture for ETIs.