Is Functional Integration More Important Than Genetic Relatedness

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• Genetic homogeneity is neither necessary nor sufficient for organismic individuality; functional integration is more importantclaim0.816
  Interpretive claim supported by experimental findings on planaria, chimeras, and cancer
• How Does Genetic Homogeneity Or Genetic Relatedness Comparequestion0.772
• Genetic Relatednessconcept0.763
  Kin-selection basis for cooperation; shown insufficient to explain all ETIs, especially those with genetically unrelated components.
• The complex nature of functional relationships between component parts begins to look less like the product of selection at the system level, and more like the source of evolutionary individuality.claim0.754
  Inverts the causal arrow: relationships produce individuality, not vice versa.
• What Is The Relationship Between Genome And Functionalquestion0.753
• Genetic identity is insufficient to define biological individuality.claim0.729
  Argues against purely genetic definitions of the self.
• Why Should Functional Or Structural Criteria Be Associatedquestion0.728
• Functional relationships necessary for evolutionary individuality are the same as those required for organismic individuality and constitute cognitive architectures.hypothesis0.721