Department of Zoology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
Curr Biol. 2009 Dec 15;19(23):R1080-2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.10.048.
Defining an organism has long been a tricky problem for biologists. Recent work has shown how an approach based on adaptation can solve this problem, giving a conceptually simple two-dimensional measure of 'organismality'.
长期以来,生物学家一直难以定义生物体。最近的研究表明,基于适应度的方法可以解决这个问题,并提供了一种概念上简单的二维“生物体性”度量。