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- Jan 2024
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greattransition.org greattransition.org
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Every coherent entity in the world is held together by some form of governance, whether it be an atom, a cell, your body, or a nation.
for - major evolutionary transitions in individuality - MET in individuality - https://hyp.is/3CqphlpHEe6yUmfDjm_p5A/www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1421402112
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- Jul 2023
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Julian Huxley
- Julian Huxley's biology work was to lay the seed of
- how one individual organism transforms over many generations
- into a new higher-level individual organism
- he called this the "movement of individuality"
- It has also come to be known as
- major transitions
- major evolutionary transition (MET)
- evolutionary transitions in individuality
- grandson of Thomas Huxley
- brother of Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
- wrote The Individual in the Animal Kingdom (1912)
- advocated for closed, independent systems with harmonious parts
- endorsed gradients of individuality
- "closure is never complete, the independence never absolute, the harmony never perfect"
- how one individual organism transforms over many generations
- Julian Huxley's biology work was to lay the seed of
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