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Reproduction Expanded: Multigenerational and Multilineal Units of Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Maureen A. O’Malley
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Abstract

Reproduction is central to biology and evolution. Standard concepts of reproduction are drawn from animals. Nonstandard examples of reproduction can be found in unicellular eukaryotes that distribute their reproductive strategies across multiple generations, and in mutualistic systems that combine different modes of reproduction across multiple lineages. Examining multigenerational and multilineal reproducers and how they align fitness has implications for conceptualizing units of evolution.

Type
Complex Life Cycles and Reproduction
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 83 , Issue 5 , December 2016 , pp. 835 - 847
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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University of Sydney Bridging Support funded the research for this paper. I am immensely grateful to fellow PSA symposiasts on ‘Complex Lifecycles’ (Peter Godfrey-Smith, Jim Griesemer, Matt Herron), and to Thomas Pradeu for chairing that symposium and commenting on this paper.

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