Does complexity always increase during major evolutionary transitions?
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Mercedes Bleda-Maza de Lizana, Hannelore Brandt, Ille C. Gebeshuber, Michael MacPherson, Tetsuya Matsuguchi and Szabolcs Számadó 1 Manchester School of Management & Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Manchester, UK 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria 3 Institut für Allgemeine Physik, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria & Austrian Center of Competence for Tribology ACT research GmbH, Wiener Neustadt, Austria 4 Theoretical Biology Laboratory, Stanford University, CA, USA 5 Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA 6 Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
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