Literature covered: early 2000s to late 2017 Bacteria frequently exchange metabolites with other micro-and macro-organisms. In these often obligate cross-feeding interactions, primary …
M Levin - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …
TM Waring, ZT Wood - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It has been suggested that the human species may be undergoing an evolutionary transition in individuality (ETI). But there is disagreement about how to apply the ETI framework to our …
PHW Biedermann, FE Vega - Annual review of entomology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The evolution of a mutualism requires reciprocal interactions whereby one species provides a service that the other species cannot perform or performs less efficiently. Services …
M Levin - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
All epistemic agents physically consist of parts that must somehow comprise an integrated cognitive self. Biological individuals consist of subunits (organs, cells, and molecular …
Tree-killing bark beetles are the most economically important insects in conifer forests worldwide. However, despite> 200 years of research, the drivers of population eruptions and …
The advent of relatively inexpensive tools for characterizing microbial communities has led to an explosion of research exploring the diversity, ecology, and evolution of microbe-host …
More than a century ago, William Morton Wheeler proposed that social insect colonies can be regarded as superorganisms when they have morphologically differentiated reproductive …
Organisms across the tree of life form symbiotic partnerships with microbes for metabolism, protection and resources. While some hosts evolve extreme dependence on their symbionts …