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Multicellularity Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology Editor-in-Chief Gerd B. Müller, University of Vienna and KLI Klosterneuburg Associate Editors Johannes Jäger, KLI Klosterneuburg Thomas Pradeu, CNRS and University of Bordeaux Katrin Schäfer, University of Vienna The Evolution of Cognition , edited by Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber, 2000 Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology , edited by Gerd B. Müller and Stuart A. Newman, 2003 Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a Synthesis , edited by Brian K. Hall, Roy D. Pearson, and Gerd B. Müller, 2004 Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach , edited by D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Greibel, 2004 Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems, edited by Werner Cal- lebaut and Diego Rasskin-Gutman, 2005 Compositional Evolution: The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolu- tion , by Richard A. Watson, 2006 Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment , by Robert G. B. Reid, 2007 Modeling Biology: Structures, Behaviors, Evolution , edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Gerd B. Müller, 2007 Evolution of Communicative Flexibility: Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Com- munication , edited by Kimbrough D. Oller and Ulrike Greibel, 2008 Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives ,edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes, 2009 Cognitive Biology: Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Mind, Brain, and Behavior ,edited by Luca Tommasi, Mary A. Peterson, and Lynn Nadel, 2009 Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology , edited by Michael J. O’Brien and Stephen J. Shennan, 2009 The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited , edited by Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny, 2011 Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology , edited by Snait B. Gissis and Eva Jablonka, 2011 Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful , George McGhee, 2011 From Groups to Individuals: Perspectives on Biological Associations and Emerging Individuality , edited by Frédéric Bouchard and Philippe Huneman, 2013 Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition , edited by Linnda R. Caporael, James Griesemer, and William C. Wimsatt, 2013 Multicellularity: Origins and Evolution , edited by Karl J. Niklas and Stuart A. Newman, 2015 Multicellularity Origins and Evolution edited by Karl J. Niklas and Stuart A. Newman The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in Times New Roman by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN: 978-0-262-03415-9 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Dedication: Werner Callebaut vii Series Foreword ix Foreword: The Evolution of Multicellularity xi John Tyler Bonner Preface xxi I FUNCTIONAL AND MOLECULAR PREDISPOSITIONS TO MULTICELLULARITY 1 1 Fossils, Feeding, and the Evolution of Complex Multicellularity 3 Andrew H. Knoll and Daniel J. G. Lahr 2 Alternative Splicing, Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Calmodulin, and the Evolution of Multicellularity 17 Karl J. Niklas and A. Keith Dunker II PLANTS AND RELATED THEORY 41 3 The Mechanistic Basis for the Evolution of Soma during the Transition to Multicellularity in the Volvocine Algae 43 Stephan G. König and Aurora M. Nedelcu 4 Physicochemical Factors in the Organization of Multicellular Aggregates and Plants 71 Juan Antonio Arias del Angel, Eugenio Azpeitia, Mariana Benítez, Ana E. Escalante, Valeria Hernández-Hernández, and Emilio Mora Van Cauwelaert 5 Angiosperm Multicellularity: The Whole, the Parts, and the Sum 87 Ottoline Leyser vi Contents III AMOEBOZOA, FUNGI, AND RELATED THEORY 103 6 Cellular Slime Mold Development as a Paradigm for the Transition from Unicellular to Multicellular Life 105 Vidyanand Nanjundiah 7 Trade-offs Drive the Evolution of Increased Complexity in Nascent Multicellular Digital Organisms 131 Peter L. Conlin and William C. Ratcliff 8 The Paths to Artificial Multicellularity: From Physics to Evolution 149 Salva Duran-Nebreda, Raúl Montañez, Adriano Bonforti, and Ricard Solé IV METAZOA AND RELATED THEORY 169 9 What Are the Genomes of Premetazoan Lineages Telling Us about the Origin of Metazoa? 171 Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo 10 Sponges as the Rosetta Stone of Colonial-to-Multicellular Transition 185 Maja Adamska 11 A Scenario for the Origin of Multicellular Organisms: Perspective from Multilevel Consistency Dynamics 201 Kunihiko Kaneko 12 Multicellularity, the Emergence of Animal Body Plans, and the Stabilizing Role of the Egg 225 Stuart A. Newman V PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF MULTICELLULARITY 247 13 Integrating Constitution and Interaction in the Transition from Unicellular to Multicellular Organisms 249 A rgyris Arnellos and Alvaro Moreno 14 Explaining the Origins of Multicellularity: Between Evolutionary Dynamics and Developmental Mechanisms 277 Alan C. Love Contributors 297 Index 299 Werner Callebaut (1952–2014) The volume editors, the series editors, and the editors at MIT Press jointly dedicate this volume to the memory of Werner Callebaut, who sadly passed away in November 2014. Werner was one of the founding editors of the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology. He had studied philosophy at Ghent University and subsequently pursued an academic career that led him via the Universities of Brussels, Limburg, and Ghent to Hasselt University, viii Werner Callebaut (1952–2014) where he became a Professor of Philosophy in 1995. Following two visiting periods at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research at Altenberg, he moved to Austria while continuing a part-time affiliation at Hasselt University. In 1999 he became the Scientific Manager and subsequently the Scientific Director of the KLI, and among his tasks were the care of the Vienna Series and the journal B iological Theory . Werner was the perfect editor. His encyclopedic knowledge in vast areas of philosophy of science and his devotion to quality and style made for the formidable success of B io- logical Theory , of which he was the editor-in-chief. He devoted countless hours, day and night, to “his” journal. He would not only run the standard review processes, but would contribute comments, suggestions, and corrections to each manuscript, and oftentimes he engaged in extensive communication with the authors. He also inspired many of the Vienna Series books and was involved in the preparations for the KLI Altenberg Workshop that spawned the present volume. Werner contributed valuable insights during the workshop and gave encouragement to several of the authors joined herein. His remarkable capacity to elicit more substantial results from any intellectual project he came in touch with also contributed to the quality of the present one. Werner was a remarkable man and a valued colleague, whose strong belief in intellectual exactitude has improved the writings and the thinking of many a scholar. If the present volume contains more flaws than usual, it is because Werner could not edit the manu- scripts. He would have loved to see this volume appear. Upon receipt he would have opened it up at a random page, and his swift editorial eye would immediately have detected several mistakes. Now those mistakes will remain hidden for years, but we will remember Werner as our gifted companion who could have detected them. We lift a glass of editor’s spirit to his memory! Gerd B. Müller, Stuart A. Newman, Karl J. Niklas Klosterneuburg, 17 April 2015 Series Foreword Biology is a leading science in this century. As in all other sciences, progress in biology depends on the interrelations between empirical research, theory building, modeling, and societal context. But whereas molecular and experimental biology have evolved dramati- cally in recent years, generating a flood of detailed empirical data, the integration of these results into useful theoretical frameworks has lagged behind. Driven largely by pragmatic and technical considerations, research in biology continues to be less guided by theory than seems indicated. By promoting the formulation and discussion of new theoretical concepts in the biosciences, this series intends to help fill important gaps in our under- standing of some of the major open questions of biology, such as the origin and organiza- tion of organismal form, the relationship between development and evolution, and the biological bases of cognition and mind. Theoretical biology has important roots in the experimental tradition of early-twentieth-century Vienna. Paul Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy were among the first to use the term t heoretical biology in its modern sense. In their understanding the subject was not limited to mathematical formalization, as is often the case today, but extended to the conceptual foundations of biology. It is this com- mitment to a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary integration of theoretical concepts that the Vienna Series intends to emphasize. Today, theoretical biology has genetic, develop- mental, and evolutionary components, the central connective themes in modern biology, but it also includes relevant aspects of computational or systems biology and extends to the naturalistic philosophy of sciences. The “Vienna Series” grew out of theory-oriented workshops organized by the KLI, an international institute for the advanced study of natural complex systems. The KLI fosters research projects, workshops, book projects, and the journal B iological Theory , all devoted to aspects of theoretical biology, with an emphasis on—but not restricted to—integrating the developmental, evolutionary, and cognitive sciences. The series editors welcome suggestions for book projects in these domains. Gerd B. Müller, Johannes Jäger, Thomas Pradeu, Katrin Schäfer
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