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How do multiple short-sighted, self-interested entities organise their relationships with one another to create a new level of individuality?

Central puzzle of ETIs: how cooperation at higher level evolves when lower-level selection favors individual reproduction.

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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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Before a transition, the higher-level unit of selection does not exist, yet complex adaptations creating that unit must evolve through bottom-up selection on lower-level units.
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Central theoretical puzzle in ETI research: explains why existing frameworks struggle with ETI explanation.

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Social Evolution Theory and Kin Selection
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Existing approach that uses genetic relatedness to explain cooperation; criticized as insufficient for explaining all ETIs.

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