title: Origins of evolutionary transitions.
abstract: An 'evolutionary transition in individuality' or 'major transition' is a transformation in the hierarchical level at which natural selection operates on a population. In this article I give an abstract (i.e. level-neutral and substrate-neutral) articulation of the transition process in order to precisely understand how such processes can happen, especially how they can get started.
authors.affiliation: All Souls College, 27 High Street, Oxford OX1 4AL, UK, ellen.clarke@all-souls.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Clarke
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D012641:Selection, Genetic
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