Evolutionary Origins and Transitions of Agency

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Bourrat, P., Doulcier, G., Rose, C. J., Rainey, P. B., & Hammerschmidt, K. (2022). Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor. ELife, 11, e73715.

CODE: Implementing the models is publicly available on Zenodo. For Figure 1: Protocol described and statistical analysis performed in Hammerschmidt et al. (2014).

DATA: published as Rose et al. (2018). For Figure 6b: Data taken from Colon-Lopez et al. (1997); Mohr et al. (2013); Misra & Tuli (2000); Berman-Frank et al. (2001); Popa et al. (2007) and standardised. For Figure 6c: Data taken from the dataset published as Rose et al. (2018).

Bourrat, P. (2022). Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 719118.

Arnellos, A., & Moreno, A. (2022). Cognitive functions are not reducible to biological ones: the case of minimal visual perception. Biology & Philosophy, 37(4), 35.

Lu, Q., & Bourrat, P. (2022). On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 94, 87–98.

Xenakis, I., & Arnellos, A. (2022). Ontological and conceptual challenges in the study of aesthetic experience. Philosophical Psychology, 1–43.

Bich, L., & Bechtel, W. (2022). Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 93, 96–106.

Bourrat, P., & Charbonneau, M. (2022). Grains of Description in Biological and Cultural Transmission. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 22(3–4), 185–202.

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