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Leo Buss

Later authors cite it as a source on the evolution of individuality and on the major evolutionary transitions1. Others use it for the idea of the individual as a unit of selection and evolutionary change5. Some cite it for multicellular organisation34.

Born
27 September 1953
Country
United States
Field
biologist
In the library
1 work, named in 4 passages elsewhere
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18501875190019251950197520002025Watson RA, Mills R, Buckley CL…, 20161Watson RA, Mills R, Buckley CL…, 20162Newman SA, 20193Newman SA, 20194Krakauer D, Bertschinger N, Olbrich E…, 20205
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Cited for evolutionary transitions

Watson and colleagues list Buss (1987) among the works on the major evolutionary transitions. They describe how evolution repeatedly created new units at successive scales of organisation1. They also say that work on transitions in individuality is motivating a new research programme within evolutionary biology2.

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Individuality as a unit of selection

Krakauer and colleagues survey definitions of individuality. One of them treats the individual as a unit of selection and evolutionary change, and Buss (1987) is the first work cited for it5. Their own paper proposes an information-theoretic account of individuality.

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Multicellularity and adaptation

Newman reviews approaches to organisation and integration in multicellular forms. He calls the main treatments adaptationist. They stress suppressing conflict between genetically heterogeneous cells, which leads to a unicellular bottleneck in development3.

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  1. In the major evolutionary transitions (evo-ego) (Maynard Smith and Szathmáry 1995, Godfrey-Smith 2009; Michod 1999, 2007; Bourke 2011; Buss 1987; Okasha 2006; Bouchard and Huneman 2013)Watson RA, Mills R, Buckley CL, Kouvaris K, Jackson A…, 2016 · Evolutionary Connectionism: Algorithmic Principles Underlying the Evolution of… · open at passage 9
  2. Work to understand these evolutionary transitions in individuality is motivating a new research programme within evolutionary biologyWatson RA, Mills R, Buckley CL, Kouvaris K, Jackson A…, 2016 · Evolutionary Connectionism: Algorithmic Principles Underlying the Evolution of… · open at passage 10
  3. These emphasize (1) the suppression of potential intercellular conflicts of genetically heterogenous cells leading to a “unicellular bottleneck” in developmentNewman SA, 2019 · Inherency of Form and Function in Animal Development and Evolution · open at passage 4
  4. all of which, in most treatments, are proposed to be products of natural selection (Buss, 1987; Ruiz-Mirazo et al., 2000; Queller and Strassmann, 2009; Folse and Roughgarden, 2010)Newman SA, 2019 · Inherency of Form and Function in Animal Development and Evolution · open at passage 4
  5. (4) as a unit of selection and evolutionary change (Buss 1987; Hughes 1990; Szathmáry and Smith 1997; Callcott and Sterelny 2011).Krakauer D, Bertschinger N, Olbrich E, Flack JC, Ay N, 2020 · The information theory of individuality · open at passage 9
In the library1 work
The evolution of individualityBuss
1987
The evolution of individuality
Buss
1987 · described