Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
From cooperation to predation: the evolutionary origins of phagocytosis
Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn, Alfred Leimar, Christopher P. Kempes…·Eric Libby
This study uses a dynamical systems framework to show phagocytosis can evolve from cooperative microbial communities and coexist with original cooperators under specific ecological conditions.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.07.757284