• Life is not easily bounded

• Working out where one hare ends and another begins is easy; a siphonophore, not so much. What is an individual in nature?

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• Derk J. Skillings

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• this article delves into the subject of defining what an individual is
  • what makes a biological organism the same or different from another biological organism?
  • This question is not so easy to answer if we are looking for a general definition that can apply to ALL species