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This paper investigates how reticulate evolution contributes to a better understanding
of human sociocultural evolution in general, and community formation in
particular. Reticulate evolution is evolution as it occurs by means of symbiosis,
symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, infective heredity, and hybridization. From
these mechanisms and processes, we mainly zoom in on symbiosis and we
investigate how it underlies the rise of (1) human, plant, animal, and machine
interactions typical of agriculture, animal husbandry, farming, and industrialization;
(2) diet‐microbiome relationships; and (3) host‐virome and other pathogen
interactions that underlie human health and disease. We demonstrate that reticulate
evolution necessitates an understanding of behavioral and cultural evolution at a
community level, where reticulate causal processes underlie the rise of synergistic
organizational traits.