The Limits of the Self¶
Pradeu, T., & Vitanza, E. (2012). The Limits of the Self: Immunology and Biological Identity. Oxford University Press.
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- Criteria of Individuation
- In biology, defining a countable organism for a colonial species, a holobiont, or a modular plant requires all three at once: a unity criterion (metabolic, reproductive, or genetic integration) to fix what is one organism, an identity criterion to re-identify it across observations, and a persistence kind to say what it must remain through metamorphosis or cell turnover — and the same domain yields different counts under different criteria (an aspen clone is one genetic individual and thousands of trunks; a Portuguese man-o'-war is one siphonophore and many zooids).
This sourceArgues biological individuality requires criteria for unity, re-identification, and persistence, and that the same organism is counted differently under different criteria (holobiont, clone, colony).
- In biology, defining a countable organism for a colonial species, a holobiont, or a modular plant requires all three at once: a unity criterion (metabolic, reproductive, or genetic integration) to fix what is one organism, an identity criterion to re-identify it across observations, and a persistence kind to say what it must remain through metamorphosis or cell turnover — and the same domain yields different counts under different criteria (an aspen clone is one genetic individual and thousands of trunks; a Portuguese man-o'-war is one siphonophore and many zooids).
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