Many roads lead to Rome: Neutral phenotypes in microorganisms

When a unit of description makes way for a second unit that consists of many members of the first, the notion of individuality, which initially referred to the ‘one’, now refers to the ‘many’....

Advances in synthetic biology have brought the long-standing ‘Origin of Life’ problem once again into prominence. Traditionally the problem was posed in terms of what seemed to be a sharp dichotomy...