@article{1386373,
      recid = {1386373},
      author = {Bouchard, Frédéric, and Huneman, Philippe,},
      title = {From groups to individuals : evolution and emerging  individuality /},
      publisher = {The MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, MA :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {The biological and philosophical implications of the  emergence of new collective individuals from associations  of living beings.Our intuitive assumption that only  organisms are the real individuals in the natural world is  at odds with developments in cell biology, ecology,  genetics, evolutionary biology, and other fields. Although  organisms have served for centuries as nature's  paradigmatic individuals, science suggests that organisms  are only one of the many ways in which the natural world  could be organized. When living beings work together--as in  ant colonies, beehives, and bacteria-metazoan  symbiosis--new collective individuals can emerge. In this  book, leading scholars consider the biological and  philosophical implications of the emergence of these new  collective individuals from associations of living beings.  The topics they consider range from metaphysical issues to  biological research on natural selection, sociobiology, and  symbiosis.The contributors investigate individuality and  its relationship to evolution and the specific concept of  organism; the tension between group evolution and  individual adaptation; and the structure of collective  individuals and the extent to which they can be defined by  the same concept of individuality. These new perspectives  on evolved individuality should trigger important revisions  to both philosophical and biological conceptions of the  individual.ContributorsFrederic Bouchard, Ellen Clarke,  Jennifer Fewell, Andrew Gardner, Peter Godfrey-Smith,  Charles J. Goodnight, Matt Haber, Andrew Hamilton, Philippe  Huneman, Samir Okasha, Thomas Pradeu, Scott Turner, Minus  van Baalen},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386373},
}