Biological individuality: integrating scientific, philosophical, and historical perspectives

Introduction : working together on individuality / Lynn K. Nyhart and Scott Lidgard

The work of biological individuality : concepts and contexts / Scott Lidgard and Lynn K. Nyhart

Cells, colonies, and clones : individuality in the volvocine algae / Matthew D. Herron

Individuality and the control of life cycles / Beckett Sterner

Discovering the ties that bind : cell-cell communication and the development of cell sociology / Andrew S. Reynolds

Alternation of generations and individuality, 1851 / Lynn K. Nyhart and Scott Lidgard

Spencer's evolutionary entanglement : from liminal individuals to implicit collectivities / Snait Gissis

Biological individuality and enkapsis : from Martin Heidenhain's synthesiology to the Völkisch national community / Olivier Rieppel

Parasitology, zoology, and society in France, ca. 1880-1920 / Michael A. Osborne

Metabolism, autonomy, and individuality / Hannah Landecker

Bodily parts in the structure-function dialectic / Ingo Brigandt

Commentaries : historical, biological, and philosophical perspectives

Distrust that particular intuition : resilient essentialisms and empirical challenges in the history of biological individuality / James Elwick

Biological individuality : a relational reading / Scott F. Gilbert

Philosophical dimensions of individuality / Alan C. Love and Ingo Brigandt.