What Constitutes The Fundamental Units Of Evolution

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• What Makes An Entity A Unit Of Selectionquestion0.771
• Evolutionary units change over evolutionary time and new units arise at new levels of organisation.claim0.755
  Emphasizes the dynamic nature of evolutionary individuality.
• What Constitutes The Boundaries Of An Individual Organismquestion0.752
• To be a bona fide evolutionary unit, a collective must exhibit heritable variation in reproductive success that belongs properly to the collective level – over and above the sum of that exhibited by its component parts.claim0.744
  Formal requirement for evolutionary individuality.
• How can selection explain adaptations at system level before the higher-level unit exists as an evolutionary unit?question0.737
  Fundamental challenge: conventional evolutionary theory cannot explain system-level features required for ETI without presupposing the higher-level unit.
• Four features will be fundamental: (1) all processes rethought as morphogenetic; (2) sequences link into a net; (3) continuous evolution becomes widespread; (4) an ethical obligation to heal the land emerges.claim0.737
  Vision of the emerging paradigm shift in society.
• For a new level of individuality to have causal role as evolutionary unit, heritable fitness differences must be non-aggregative (not decomposable into lower-level differences).claim0.725
  Core claim: monotonic non-linearities are insufficient; evolutionary outcomes must change depending on context.
• For collectives to be meaningful evolutionary units, fitness interactions must be non-linearly separable, not merely non-aggregative.claim0.722
  Strengthens distinction between monotonic non-linear interactions (explanatorily redundant) and non-decomposable interactions (causally significant).