Guilhem Doulcier

May 14, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Guilhem Doulcier |Philippe Remigi |Paul B. Rainey |Daniel Rexin

AbstractThe evolution of multicellular organisms involves the emergence of cellular collectives that eventually become units of selection in their own right. The process can be facilitated by ecological conditions that impose heritable variance in fitness on nascent collectives with long-term persistence depending on capacity of competing lineages to transition reliably between soma- and germ-like stages of proto-life cycles.