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You were then asked how many ways you could permute the distinct values p, q and r inside the function f without changing its value.

When mechanisms evolve that suppress the potential for disruptive within-group selection, then between-group selection becomes the dominant evolutionary force and the group permutes into a superorganism.

As if Margulis’s proposal for nucleated cells was not radical enough, the concept of groups permuting into organisms was generalized by two theoretical biologists, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary in the 1990s.

En latin, cette lettre so permute frquemment avec le d: attulit pour adtulit.