Community First Theory: How Collective Organization Generates Individual Diversity
Takashi Ikegami, Hiroki Kojima, Akiko Kashiwagi · 2026
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Ikegami, Kojima, and Kashiwagi propose Community First Theory in twenty twenty-six. Groups often show behaviour that no single member shows alone. The authors ask whether being an individual comes before group order, or grows out of it. Their theory says group order comes first and creates individual identity.
They test the idea in single celled organisms tracked in full across four generations. A new measure asks whether a cell's future behaviour is set by itself or spread across its neighbours. Midway through the cell cycle, cells briefly became self determined. Those cells then diverged more from their parents than other cells did. The authors say group order can actively create diversity among members.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Takashi Ikegami, Hiroki Kojima, Akiko Kashiwagi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |