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Major Evolutionary Transitions

Major Evolutionary Transitions is a theoretical framework within evolutionary biology that explains the emergence of higher-level units of biological organization through the hierarchical integration of previously independent entities into more complex, cooperative systems governed by new levels of selection.

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Major Transitions In Evolution

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THE MAJOR TRANSITIONS OF EVOLUTION

Egbert Giles Leigh · Evolution · 1995 · 3K citations · Full text

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The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance

Donald S. Farner · The Auk · 1983 · 2.5K citations

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The Units of Selection

Richard C Lewontin · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1970 · 1.9K citations

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Major Ecological Transitions in Wild Sunflowers Facilitated by Hybridization

Loren H. Rieseberg, Olivier Raymond, David M. Rosenthal et al. · Science · 2003 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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The major evolutionary transitions

Eörs Szathmáry, John Maynard Smith · Nature · 1995 · 1.1K citations

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    Richard E. Michod

    University of Arizona, United States

    14 publications · 1.3K citations

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    William C. Ratcliff

    Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

    8 publications · 684 citations

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    Matthew D. Herron

    Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

    7 publications · 527 citations

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    Eörs Szathmáry

    Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

    7 publications · 2.1K citations

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    Richard Shine

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    6 publications · 763 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    27 h-index

    87 publications

    7.2K citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    24 h-index

    63 publications

    9.7K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    20 h-index

    62 publications

    9.4K citations

  4. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    19 h-index

    45 publications

    4.4K citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    18 h-index

    41 publications

    3.9K citations

  6. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    17 h-index

    53 publications

    4.7K citations

  7. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    17 h-index

    37 publications

    2.2K citations

  8. Natural History Museum

    London, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    40 publications

    2.1K citations

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  1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 36 publications · 7.2K citations

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  2. Evolution

    37 publications · 6.6K citations

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  5. Nature Communications

    21 publications · 1.8K citations

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