Ecosystems as superorganisms: the neglected evolutionary implications.(News & Views) Frontier Perspectives | September 22, 2006| | COPYRIGHT 2006 Temple University - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, through its Center for Frontier Sciences. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

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A new conception of evolution is considered in the light of ecosystems as superorganisms, where competition takes place and selective pressures are transmitted throughout the fabric of an ecosystem via chains of interacting niches, and the end result is a coordinated evolution where the structure of the ecosystem exerts control over the direction of evolutionary change. Evidence is presented for this position in the form of observations on the role of species adaptation as a barrier to biological invasion within climax ecosystems. Finally, humanity, as a ...

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