 Evolutionary transition is “the process that creates new levels of biological organization” (Griesemer 2000c: 69), such as the origins of chromosomes, multicellularity, eukaryotes, and social groups (Maynard-Smith and Szathmáry 1995: 6–7). These transitions all share a common feature, namely that “entities that were capable of independent replication before the transition can replicate only as part of a larger whole after it” (Maynard-Smith and Szathmáry 1995: 6).