Are there antecedents, earlier than 1998, to what has been recently published, which includes:
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Grosberg, Richard K. / Strathmann, Richard R. The Evolution of Multicellularity: A Minor Major Transition? 2007 Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics , Vol. 38, No. Volume 38, 2007
Ratcliff, William C. / Denison, R. Ford / Borrello, Mark / Travisano, Michael Experimental evolution of multicellularity 2012-01 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Vol. 109, No. 5
Libby, Eric / Rainey, Paul B. A conceptual framework for the evolutionary origins of multicellularity 2013-06 Physical Biology , Vol. 10, No. 3
Niklas, Karl J. The evolutionary-developmental origins of multicellularity 2014 American Journal of Botany , Vol. 101, No. 1
Bains, William / Schulze-Makuch, Dirk The Cosmic Zoo: The (Near) Inevitability of the Evolution of Complex, Macroscopic Life 2016-06 Life (Basel, Switzerland) , Vol. 6, No. 27376334
Herron, Matthew D. / Borin, Joshua M. / Boswell, Jacob C. / Walker, Jillian / Chen, I.-Chen Kimberly / Knox, Charles A. / Boyd, Margrethe / Rosenzweig, Frank / Ratcliff, William C. De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation 2019-02
Veit, Walter Evolution of multicellularity: cheating done right 2019-04-26 Biology & Philosophy , Vol. 34, No. 3
Pichugin, Yuriy / Traulsen, Arne Evolution of multicellular life cycles under costly fragmentation 2020-11 PLoS Comput. Biol. , Vol. 16, No. 11
Colizzi, Enrico Sandro / Vroomans, Renske M. A. / Merks, Roeland M. H. Evolution of multicellularity by collective integration of spatial information 2020-10 Goldstein, Raymond E. / Walczak, Aleksandra M. (Eds.) eLife , Vol. 9
Cock, J. Evolution of Multicellularity 2021-09 Genes , Vol. 12
Bonforti, Adriano / Solé, Ricard Unicellular–multicellular evolutionary branching driven by resource limitations 2022 Journal of The Royal Society Interface , Vol. 19, No. 191
Herron, Matthew D. / Conlin, Peter L. / Ratcliff, William C. (Eds.) The Evolution of Multicellularity 2024-08-26 CRC Press: Boca Raton, Florida