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Rick Michod

Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Applied Mathematics - GIDP

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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$3.3M / $3.4M Funding
5+ Grants
90+ Publications
9+ News

Research Area

multicellularity, evolution, biology, developmental biology, evolutionary transition, origin of life, individuality, evolutionary biology, fitness trade-offs, soma evolution

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    Steps to individuality in biology and culture

    2023
    individuality, biology, culture

    A Darwinian approach to the origin of life cycles with grouproperties

    2015
    evolution, origin of life, life cycles, property, darwinian approach

    A model for the origin of groureproduction during the evolutionary transition to multicellularity

    2015
    evolutionary transition, multicellularity, reproduction, origin of life, modeling

    Grouselection and grouadaptation during a major evolutionary transition: insights from the evolution of multicellularity in the volvocine algae

    2014
    evolutionary transition, multicellularity, volvocine algae, grouselection, grouadaptation

    Fitness trade-offs and developmental constraints in the evolution of soma: an experimental study in a volvocine alga

    2014
    evolutionary biology, developmental biology, fitness trade-offs, soma evolution

    DNA repair as the primary adaptive function of sex in bacteria and eukaryotes

    2012

    Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    2011

    Flagellar phenotypic plasticity in volvocalean algae correlates with Péclet number

    2011

    What is life and why, how and when did it begin?

    2011

    Inclusive fitness in evolution

    2011

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