Sterelny, KimCalcott, BrettCalcott, BSterelny, K2022-05-249780262015240http://hdl.handle.net/1885/265892Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved. In 1995, John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry published their influential book The Major Transitions in Evolution. The "transitions" that Maynard Smith and Szathmáry chose to describe all constituted major changes in the kinds of organisms that existed but, most important, these events also transformed the evolutionary process itselfapplication/pdfen-AU© 2011 The authorsPart I: A Big Picture of Life's History201110.7551/mitpress/9780262015240.011.00012020-12-27