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    It is not the case that The compositional account explains how collections of live individuals may evolve.

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    • 1.The compositional account conflates the conditions for life with the conditions for evolutionary change, which are logically distinct phenomena.
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    • 2.Ernst Mayr's biological species concept demonstrates that evolution operates on populations via reproductive isolation, not merely informational composition of parts.
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    • 3.A collection of live individuals can evolve through genetic drift or environmental selection without any change in the informational mechanisms of their constituent parts.
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    • 1.Margolis and Sagan's symbiogenesis theory shows that major evolutionary transitions arise from mergers of organisms, not internal informational modification of parts.
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    • 2.If evolutionary change can originate from wholesale compositional reorganization rather than mutation of existing informational carriers, the account's explanatory scope is radically incomplete.
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    • 1.Individual objects are alive only if their composition is under the control of some of their parts (e.g., nucleic acid molecules) that carry information.
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    • 2.The mechanisms by which such information is carried tend to be modified over time, altering the information they carry, and thus the features of the organisms they help shape, introducing mutations that may or may not facilitate survival.
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