Individuals are things that everybody knows—or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an

"This is a book of interest to philosophers of biology, metaphysicians, and biologists."--BOOK JACKET.

Immunology asserts that an individual can be defined through self and nonself. Thomas Pradeu argues that this theory is inadequate, because immune responses to

Introduction: working together on individuality / Lynn K. Nyhart and Scott Lidgard -- The work of biological individuality: concepts and contexts / Scott Lidgar

The biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of new collective individuals from associations of living beings. Our intuitive assumption that o