English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
Add to Basket
  DetailsSummary

Released
Journal Article

Resolving conflicts during the evolutionary transition to multicellular life

MPS-Authors
/persons/resource/persons56872

Rainey,  Paul B.
External Scientific Member Group Experimental and Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society;

External Resource
No external resources are shared
Fulltext (restricted access)
There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.
Fulltext (public)
There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe
Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Rainey, P. B., & De Monte, S. (2014). Resolving conflicts during the evolutionary transition to multicellular life. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 45, 599-620. doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091740.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0024-5CC0-1
Abstract
The evolution of multicellular life from unicellular ancestral types involves a hierarchical shift in the level at which selection operates. The shift, from cells to collectives, depends on the emergence of Darwinian properties at the level of nascent collectives. However, from the very earliest phases— even before the emergence of higher-level Darwinian properties—the stage is set for the evolution of conflict. Here we consider the range of ways by which cooperation and conflict manifest at different levels of biological organization. We give prominence to the emerging idea that conflict is a central driver in the evolution of biological complexity and, in particular, that solutions to conflict, notably those that arise from selection operating at different temporal scales, have fueled the evolution of individuality. 599