Lifecycle
Cf.
- organism
- cell
- Evolution
Organisms are lifecycles.
- the organism is its life cycle
- evolution consists of alterations of the life cycle
- development extends beyond the body and into interactions with other organisms
Bonner, John Tyler. Size and Cycle: An Essay on the Structure of Biology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965.
Bonner, John Tyler. Life Cycles: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Gilbert, Scott F. ‘Evolutionary Transitions Revisited: Holobiont Evo-Devo’. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 332, no. 8 (2019): 307–14. https://doi.org/10/gtp7w8.