• DOI:10.1086/668166
Corpus ID: 14279096

A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals

@article{Gilbert2012ASV,
  title={A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals},
  author={S. Gilbert and J. Sapp and A. Tauber},
  journal={The Quarterly Review of Biology},
  year={2012},
  volume={87},
  pages={325 - 341}
}

S. Gilbert, J. Sapp, A. Tauber

Published 2012

Biology, Medicine

The Quarterly Review of Biology

The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological subdisciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data. During the past decade, nucleic acid analysis, especially genomic sequencing and high-throughput RNA techniques, has challenged each of these disciplinary definitions by finding… CONTINUE READING

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