@inbook{08a50b5661914ffaa0a6daabe9946e7c,
title = "Darwinian Evolution from a Generational Point of View",
abstract = "The potential implications of an extended generational overlap in the context of the biological evolution of our planet are discussed. A special emphasis is made on the replication patterns exhibited by contemporary bacteria considered as a feasible prototype of the first forms of life in our planet. Accordingly, it is hypothesized that the existence of a large number of overlapping generations could act as an important source of individual variability for those ancestral species, impacting the way that well-established processes like natural selection and biological evolution operate in nature, a principle that, probably, could also be applied to the prebiotic era.",
keywords = "Darwinian evolution, Fitness, Natural selection, Overlapping generations",
author = "Osmel Martin and Jos{\'e} Suarez-Lezcano and Yoelsy Leyva",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-88919-7\_14",
language = "English",
series = "Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "185--193",
booktitle = "Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences",
address = "Germany",
}