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Feb 21, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Michael Levin |Christopher Buckley |Richard Watson |Tazzio Tissot

AbstractHow do multiple active components at one level of organisation create agential wholes at higher levels of organisation? For example, in organismic development, how does the multi-scale autonomy of the organism arise from the interactions of the molecules, cells and tissues that an organism contains? And, in the major evolutionary transitions, how does a multicellular organism, for example, arise as an evolutionary unit from the selective interests of its unicellular ancestors?