Major evolutionary and ecological transitions in levels of organization

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Libby, E., C. Kempes, and J.G. Okie. Metabolic compatibility and the rarity of endosymbioses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(17) e2206527120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2206527120.

Chapter 5 (Integrating Science and Society for Environmental Realism) in Cockerill, K., M. Armstrong, J. Richter, and J.G. Okie. 2017. Environmental Realism - Challenging Solutions. Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland.  

Okie, J.G., V.H. Smith, and M. Martin-Cereceda. 2016. Major evolutionary transitions of life, metabolic scaling, and the number and size of mitochondria and chloroplasts. Proc. Roc. Soc. B 283:20160611. (Supplemental Material). 

Okie, J.G. 2013. General models for the spectra of surface area scaling strategies of cells and organisms: fractality, geometric dissimilitude, and internalization. American Naturalist 181:421-439.  

Nekola, J.C., C.D. Allen, J.H. Brown, W.R. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, T.S. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, S.T. Hammond, A. Kodric-Brown, N. Mercado-Silva, and J.G. Okie. 2013. The Malthusian-Darwinian dynamic and the trajectory of civilization. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:127-130. 

Okie, J.G. 2012. Microorganisms, in Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach (eds R.M. Sibly, J.H. Brown, and A. Kodric-Brown), Jon Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

DeLong, J.P., J.G. Okie, M.E. Moses, R.M. Sibly, and J.H. Brown. 2010. Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:12941-12945.

Illustrative Figures

Figure from Okie (2012):