Leo Buss
Leo W. Buss (born 1952) is an American evolutionary biologist, known for his work on the evolution of individuality and the role of conflict among cell lineages in the origin of multicellular animals. He was a long-time professor at Yale University, with appointments in ecology and evolutionary biology and in geology and geophysics.
The Evolution of Individuality
Buss’s 1987 book The Evolution of Individuality framed the multicellular individual as an evolutionary problem rather than a given. Because cell lineages within a developing organism can carry heritable somatic variation, selection among cell lineages can oppose selection among organisms. Buss argued that the major
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