2011
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2011.0022
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A Consumer's Guide to Superorganisms

Abstract: The organism, like the molecule, the cell, and the species, is one of the fundamental levels in our hierarchical classification of life and its components. The units ranked at these levels, being concrete, particular things, are individuals in the broadest philosophical sense. But in a much narrower and more familiar sense, individual means an individual organism. Like species, the term individual is hard to define, but in most biological discourse it has meant the unit of philosophical autonomy. Some authors … Show more

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“…The fact that parallel processes act across these different domains of social evolution makes sense because a syngamous zygote is an equally strong foundational bond as life‐time parental monogamy (e.g. Boomsma, , ; Ghiselin, ). The life‐time commitment principle is consistent with 100% single zygote bottlenecking (Maynard Smith & Szathmáry, ) and apparently overrules potential conflicts between co‐replicons that may be expressed later in development.…”
Section: Resolving the Terminological Quagmire Facilitates Evolutionamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The fact that parallel processes act across these different domains of social evolution makes sense because a syngamous zygote is an equally strong foundational bond as life‐time parental monogamy (e.g. Boomsma, , ; Ghiselin, ). The life‐time commitment principle is consistent with 100% single zygote bottlenecking (Maynard Smith & Szathmáry, ) and apparently overrules potential conflicts between co‐replicons that may be expressed later in development.…”
Section: Resolving the Terminological Quagmire Facilitates Evolutionamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In that sense, honey bee colonies are referred to as "super organisms" (Moritz and Southwick, 1992), a variant of the "organism" concept according to Pepper and Herron (2008). The "organism" can also be referred to an "individual organism" (Ghiselin 2011). …”
Section: Ecological Entitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%