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Perhaps the most defining characteristic of the living state is the centrality of cognition at every scale and level of organization, in the embedding context of interaction, contention, and selection—ubiquitous evolutionary processes at and across those same scales and levels of organization.
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Wallace, R. (2023). Afterward. In: Essays on the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29879-0_9
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