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A clade is a monophyletic taxon or monophyletic group if you prefer. A monophyletic taxon (or a clade) is defined as a taxon that contains only all descendants of a common ancestor and the common ancestor.

[I would have said "all and only"

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    <title>The mysterious village where girls turn into boys - The Washington Post</title>
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    <title>The CEO of Sears Fails His Company by Believing in Ayn Rand and the Invisible Hand - Evonomics</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-08T00:36:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://evonomics.com/the-ceo-of-sears/</link>
    <dc:creator>ernie.bornheimer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Evolution is all about competition, and the dramatic effects that competition has on the structure and behavior of organisms over time. But here’s the key idea: competition occurs at multiple levels simultaneously, and the winner at any one level generally succeeds by suppressing destructive forms of competition at the level below. Just look at our cells: each one contains mitochondria, each of which has its own DNA because mitochondria used to be free-living organisms. But somehow, various bacteria-like organisms found a way to incorporate each other and cooperate, and the result was the eukaryotic cell, which spread like wildfire over a billion years ago because it was able to harvest the benefits of division of labor.

Eukaryotic cells then found a way to cooperate with each other to form multi-cellular animals and plants, which spread like wildfire because they too were able to reap the benefits of the division of labor: some cells became leg muscles; others became adrenal glands or brain cells, and the diversified body was able to do things like run after other animals, kill them, and eat them.

But individual organisms are not the highest level of organization. In a few species – such as bees, ants, and humans – evolution created innovations that allow groups of thousands or millions of individuals to work together toward common goals and build gigantic corporate entities, such as beehives, ant nests, and… corporations such as Sears, which thrive and cover the earth because they reap the benefits of the division of labor.]]></description>
<dc:subject>David Sloan Wilson Haidt Evonomics competition cooperation Sears self-similar levels economics biology</dc:subject>
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    <title>The mismeasure of machine: why machine metaphors in biology are misleading | Plato's Footnote</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-25T00:01:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://platofootnote.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/the-mismeasure-of-machine/</link>
    <dc:creator>ernie.bornheimer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dawkins disagrees, and writes in The Selfish Gene:

“When a man throws a ball high in the air and catches it again, he behaves as if he had solved a set of differential equations in predicting the trajectory of the ball. He may neither know nor care what a differential equation is, but this does not affect his skill with the ball. At some subconscious level, something functionally equivalent to the mathematical calculations is going on.”

No, it isn’t. In fact, experiments show that humans (and dogs) use a deceptively simple heuristic to catch a ball: keep your gaze fixed at the ball, and adjust your running speed such that the angle of the ball remains constant (for references to this and other claims in this post, see the original paper). When you follow this heuristic, you will be there when the ball hits the ground. As it happens, baseball players are very poor at predicting where a ball is going to hit the ground when they are asked not to run towards it. They just manage to get there when the ball does.]]></description>
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    <title>Franklin Veaux's answer to Why are humans not capable of photosynthesis? - Quora</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-09T23:19:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Ben Waggoner's answer to What are some of the most interesting protists? - Quora</title>
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    <title>Filamentous bacteria transport electrons over centimetre distances : Nature : Nature Publishing Group</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-13T20:31:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>(105) Ian York's answer to Death and Dying: Why do humans die? - Quora</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-08T14:31:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.quora.com/Death-and-Dying-1/Why-do-humans-die/answer/Ian-York</link>
    <dc:creator>ernie.bornheimer</dc:creator><dc:subject>death biology</dc:subject>
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    <title>(253) Ian York's answer to Why do humans die? - Quora</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-06T20:13:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.quora.com/Why-do-humans-die/answer/Ian-York</link>
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    <title>The Biological Notion of Individual (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-05T20:24:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biology-individual/</link>
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    <title>DNA seen through the eyes of a coder</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-30T17:59:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/</link>
    <dc:creator>ernie.bornheimer</dc:creator><dc:subject>DNA code computer programming genetics biology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n7/full/nbt0706-801.html">
    <title>Open software for biologists: from famine to feast : Article : Nature Biotechnology</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-03T20:52:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n7/full/nbt0706-801.html</link>
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    <title>Life began when algorithms took control | Science News</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-23T00:43:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/life-began-when-algorithms-took-control</link>
    <dc:creator>ernie.bornheimer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Presumably, life originated with the arrival of some particularly complicated chemistry. Various nonliving molecules somehow accumulated in a way that initiated metabolism, reproduction and eventually evolution. So searchers for life’s origins have focused on finding out what those molecules were and how they worked. But it’s important, Walker and Davies point out, to narrow that focus to the right aspect of molecular activity.

“A common source of confusion stems from the fact that molecules play three distinct roles: structural, informational and chemical,” the scientists write in a paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

It’s the informational role that is the key to transforming nonliving chemistry into life, they contend. “The manner in which information flows through and between cells and sub-cellular structures is quite unlike anything else observed in nature. If life is more than just complex chemistry, its unique informational management properties may be the crucial indicator of this distinction.”

    The manner in which information flows through and between cells and sub-cellular structures is quite unlike anything else observed in nature. If life is more than just complex chemistry, its unique informational management properties may be the crucial indicator of this distinction.

— Sara Imari Walker and Paul Davies
Specifically, Walker and Davies argue that life’s origin involved the separation of information processing from information storage. Metabolism is itself a sort of information processing — input information is “processed” via chemical reactions into output products, just as a computer program converts input data into output. But chemical reactions happening on their own do not in themselves constitute life. It’s the origin of the computer program — the stored information controlling what happens — that marks life’s beginnings.

“Living and nonliving matter differ fundamentally in the way information is organized and flows through the system: biological systems are distinctive because information manipulates the matter it is instantiated in,” Walker and Davies assert. Information’s control over the matter containing it — what Walker and Davies call “context-dependent causation” — is therefore life’s defining feature. “The origin of life may thus be identified when information gains top-down causal efficacy over the matter that instantiates it.”

In other words, when the information stored in molecules begins telling the molecules what to do, chemistry becomes life.

Walker and Davies refer to this transformation as an “algorithmic takeover.” Chemical reactions such as those of metabolism process analog information — the information is represented in the actual molecules physically performing the processes. Life’s computer program is stored digitally, in DNA. (Too bad it is not short for digital nucleic acid.) DNA’s information is processed algorithmically, by the reading of codes contained in the arrangement of molecules that are distinct from the molecules that participate in the actual metabolism.

This digitally stored information contains not only the blueprint for making the organism, but also the instructions for constructing the organism from the blueprint. These instructions, the algorithm, control the chemistry. So algorithmic takeover is the hallmark of life’s origin. It marks a sharp transition between life and nonlife, framing the origin of life question more precisely.

“The real challenge of life’s origin is thus to explain how instructional information control systems emerge naturally and spontaneously from mere molecular dynamics,” Walker and Davies write.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life information biology</dc:subject>
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    <title>West's Meditations: 'HBD'</title>
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    <link>http://alwestmeditates.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/hbd_11.html</link>
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    <title>(5) Ian York's answer to The Human Race and Condition: Why do humans die? - Quora</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-28T16:45:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.quora.com/The-Human-Race-and-Condition/Why-do-humans-die/answer/Ian-York</link>
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    <dc:creator>ernie.bornheimer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Natural selection is a special explanatory concept in the sciences, worthy, in my view, of Daniel Dennett's designation as "the best idea that anyone ever had." That's because it explains one of the greatest mysteries in science, the illusion of design in the natural world. The core of natural selection is that when replicators arise and make copies of themselves, (1) their numbers will tend, under ideal conditions, to increase exponentially; (2) they will necessarily compete for finite resources; (3) some will undergo random copying errors ("random" in the sense that they do not anticipate their effects in the current environment); and (4) whichever copying errors happen to increase the rate of replication will accumulate in a lineage and predominate in the population. After many generations of replication, the replicators will show the appearance of design for effective replication, while in reality they have just accumulated the copying errors that had successful replication as their effect.

What's satisfying about the theory is that it is so mechanistic. The copying errors (mutations) are random (more accurately, blind to their effects). The outcome of interest is the number of copies in a finite population.  The surprising outcome is a product of the cumulative effects of many generations of replication. If the copying errors were not random (that is, if Lamarck had been correct that changes in an organism arise in response to a felt need, or if creationists were right that a superior intelligence directed mutations to be beneficial to the organism), then natural selection would be otiose—the design could come from the mutation stage. If the outcome of interest were not the number of copies in a finite population, but some human-centered criterion of success (power, preeminence, influence, beauty), then natural selection would not be mechanistic: the dynamics of change in the population could not be mathematically computed from its prior state. And if it took place in a single generation, then natural selection would be banal, since it would add nothing to ordinary physical cause and effect. When a river erodes the soft rock layers on its bed and leaves behind the harder layers, or when the more volatile compounds in petroleum evaporate faster than the less volatile ones, one hardly needs to invoke the theory of natural selection. One can just say that some things are stronger, or longer-lasting, or more stable than others. Only when selection operates over multiple generations of replication, yielding a cumulative result that was not obvious from cause and effect applying to a single event, does the concept of natural selection add anything. 

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The recent surge of interest in group selection has been motivated by two empirical phenomena. One is eusociality in insect taxa such as bees, ants, and termites, whose worker or soldier castes forgo their own reproduction and may sacrifice their lives to benefit their fellows, as when a bee dies when stinging an invader. E. O. Wilson notes that a self-sacrificing insect benefits the colony, and concludes that eusociality must be explained by selection among colonies. But most other biologists point out that the sacrificer benefits the queen (her sister or mother), who founds a new colony when she reproduces, so the simplest explanation of eusociality is that the genes promoting self-sacrifice were selected because they benefited copies of themselves inside the queen.[4] The same is true for other collectives of genetic relatives in which only a select few reproduce, such as the individuals making up a colonial organism and the cells making up a body.

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The huge literature on the evolution of cooperation in humans has done quite well by applying the two gene-level explanations for altruism from evolutionary biology, nepotism and reciprocity, each with a few twists entailed by the complexity of human cognition.

Nepotistic altruism in humans consists of feelings of warmth, solidarity, and tolerance toward those who are likely to be one's kin. It evolved because any genes that encouraged such feelings toward genetic relatives would be benefiting copies of themselves inside those relatives. (This does not, contrary to a common understanding, mean that people love their relatives because of an unconscious desire to perpetuate their genes.) A vast amount of human altruism can be explained in this way. Compared to the way people treat nonrelatives, they are far more likely to feed their relatives, nurture them, do them favors, live near them, take risks to protect them, avoid hurting them, back away from fights with them, donate organs to them, and leave them inheritances.

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The idea of Group Selection has a superficial appeal because humans are indisputably adapted to group living and because some groups are indisputably larger, longer-lived, and more influential than others. This makes it easy to conclude that properties of human groups, or properties of the human mind, have been shaped by a process that is akin to natural selection acting on genes. Despite this allure, I have argued that the concept of Group Selection has no useful role to play in psychology or social science. It refers to too many things, most of which are not alternatives to the theory of gene-level selection but loose allusions to the importance of groups in human evolution. And when the concept is made more precise, it is torn by a dilemma. If it is meant to explain the cultural traits of successful groups, it adds nothing to conventional history and makes no precise use of the actual mechanism of natural selection. But if it is meant to explain the psychology of individuals, particularly an inclination for unconditional self-sacrifice to benefit a group of nonrelatives, it is dubious both in theory (since it is hard to see how it could evolve given the built-in advantage of protecting the self and one's kin) and in practice (since there is no evidence that humans have such a trait).]]></description>
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