A unifying framework for the evolution of metazoa and social insects, two major evolutionary transitions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 32, August 2026. <br/>The evolution of life is characterized by major transitions, i.e., the evolution of new targets of selection (e.g., prokaryotes, eukaryotes, multicellular organisms, social insect colonies). They arose when preexisting lower-level units cooperated and … Source: Read the original article on www.pnas.org