Biological Individuality¶
Wilson, J. (1999). Biological Individuality: The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities. Cambridge University Press.
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- Unity Test
- In biology, defining an individual organism is recurrently contested for colonial species, symbiotic associations, and modular organisms, each definition resting on a different unity test — metabolic integration, reproductive unity, genetic unity, behavioral unity.
This sourceSurveys the competing unity criteria — metabolic, genetic, reproductive, immunological — by which colonial, symbiotic, and modular organisms are individuated.
- In biology, defining an individual organism is recurrently contested for colonial species, symbiotic associations, and modular organisms, each definition resting on a different unity test — metabolic integration, reproductive unity, genetic unity, behavioral unity.
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