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    Agency and Directionality in Development
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    Cellular agency in multicellular development and cancer
    Physical aspects of early multicellular development
    Intrinsic purposiveness and the shaping of development

    Modeling Agency Formally
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    The paradox of the organism
    Universal principles of evolutionary adaptation
    Natural selection for collective purpose
    Emergent intrinsic motivations in intelligent collectives

    Evolutionary Origins and Transitions of Agency
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    Integration and individuation in the origin of agency
    Transitions in individuality: from ecology to teleonomy
    Features of autonomy in human evolution

    (Re)Conceptualizing Function and Goal-Directedness
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    Putting representations back into goal-directedness
    Open-ended evolution and organizational closure
    Mistakes in living systems: a new conceptual framework
    ‘Function’ in biology and bio-inspired design

    Directionality in Genomics and Macroevolution
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    Mutation rates, variational specificity, and genomic directionality
    New tests of directionality in fossil lineages
    The genetic basis of macroevolutionary trends

    Higher-Level Agency and Directionality in Ecology and Earth Science
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    Geofunctions: purposes and agents in global environmental sciences
    Chance versus purpose in biosphere evolution
    An organizational account of ecological functions

    Agential Behavior and Plasticity in Evolution
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    Exploratory mechanisms, agency, and evolution
    Agency and explanation in the evolutionary sciences
    Directedness in holobiont systems
    Evolution and organismal goal-directedness
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