Toward major evolutionary transitions theory 2.0

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 10104-10111

  Szathmáry, Eörs ^a,b  

^a PARMENIDES FOUNDATION   (Germany)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aggregative unit formation; Egalitarian transitions; Fraternal transitions; Multilevel selection; Recursive transitions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC CODE; HEREDITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PLASTID; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTIC CELL; RNA GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CULTURAL FACTOR; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MARKOV CHAIN; ORGANELLE BIOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; ORGANELLE BIOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84939809575     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421398112     Document Type: Article

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