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    It is not the case that Being alive is a property an individual may bear on its own, without being capable of Darwinian evolution.

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    • 1.Life is fundamentally a population-level phenomenon; organisms are defined by membership in lineages with reproductive capacity, not intrinsic properties.
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    • 2.Mayr's biological species concept and Hull's process ontology ground biological categories in historical-causal networks, not individual instantiation.
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    • 3.An isolated last dodo lacks the relational properties constitutive of being alive as a biological kind, even if its metabolism continues.
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    • 1.Maturana and Varela's autopoiesis defines life by self-producing organization, which itself presupposes evolutionary origin and cannot be decoupled from Darwinian history.
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    • 2.A system's current autopoietic organization is intelligible only against the background of selective pressures that shaped it, making evolution constitutively relevant.
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    • The compositional account implies that being alive is a property an individual (say the last remaining dodo) may bear on its own.
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