In his 1987 book, “The Evolution of Individuality,” Leo Buss addressed a fundamental biological question: “How could individual multicellular animals (known as metazoans), like sea anemones, insects, frogs, and humans arise?” Buss focused on a key challenge...
Evolutionary processes, and specifically selection-based mechanisms, have long served to inspire in vitro methods for generating proteins and nucleic acids that mediate functions of interest. Examples going back two decades include the development of phage...