"an event in which entities that could replicate independently before the transition now get organized into an encompassing system that can only replicate as a whole. Basic examples are the origin of life, where molecules get arranged in an autocatalytic cycle where all components are needed to replicate one of them, genes that get arranged on a chromosome and thus lose their freedom to replicate independently, and cells that join to form a multicellular organism. Since these replicators all carry information, an evolutionary transition fundamentally changes the way in which information is stored, transmitted and translated." (Heylighen)

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