Figure 2.

The cooperation‐conflict space is useful to visualize and evaluate potentially organismal interactions. Panel (A) illustrates organismality space (after Queller and Strassmann 2009) and some of the potential paths (numbered 1–4) organisms can move through under changing ecological contexts, such as development, resource availability, population size, and species interactions. In Panel (B), we provide examples of movement across organismal space in honey bee colonies (blue) and groups of microbial cells (red). In both examples, the cloud plot depicts the movement over “organismality space” and the labels represent the context that facilitates this change. The shading around the points is meant to convey the possibility of small changes in cooperation‐conflict in any context.