You'd love the highly influential 2015 paper, Major evolutionary transitions in individuality https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1421402112 https://www

You'd love the highly influential 2015 paper, Major evolutionary transitions in individuality https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1421402112 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1421402112 > The evolution of life on earth has been driven by a small number of major evolutionary transitions. These transitions have been characterized by individuals that could previously replicate independently, cooperating to form a new, more complex life form. For example, [...]