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New Book Argues Individuals Key to Understanding Biological Variation

Original: 📚️ Populations of Individuals: Understanding Biological Variation from Molecules to Ecosystems "Populations of Individua

A new biology book, 'Populations of Individuals: Understanding Biological Variation from Molecules to Ecosystems', is drawing attention. The book argues that treating individuals as the basic unit of study can bring coherence to biological variation across all levels of complexity, from molecules to whole ecosystems, replacing what researchers often treat as noise with a unifying principle.

Why now: The book offers a fresh conceptual framework for a long-standing problem in biology, prompting discussion among researchers.

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• 📚️ Populations of Individuals: Understanding Biological Variation from Molecules to Ecosystems "Populations of Individuals illustrates with examples from each level of biological complexity that this underlying principle can replace instability and noise with a coherent and… · bibliolater@vivaldi.net · 5

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