Tobias Uller, PI of the "Evolution and organismal goal-directedness" project, is one of the authors of “Characterisation and cross-amplification of sex-specific genetic markers in Australasian Egerniinae lizards and their implications for understanding the evolution of sex determination and social complexity” published in the Australian Journal of Zoology. The authors write that the work “opens up a range of potential research questions related to the role that sex plays in the mediation of social behaviour and, through this, the emergence and stability of social life.”
Three members of the “An organizational account of ecological functions” project, Paride Bollettin, David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani, contributed to the Open Access article “Cultural consensus and intracultural diversity in ethnotaxonomy: lessons from a fishing community in Northeast Brazil.” The article was published in the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine.
Phil Donoghue, PI of the Chance versus purpose in the evolution of biospheres project, is one of the authors of "Increasing morphological disparity and decreasing optimality for jaw speed and strength during the radiation of jawed vertebrates" in Science Advances. The authors "quantified the variety of form in the earliest jaws in the fossil record from which we generated a theoretical morphospace that we then tested for functional optimality."
Authors James DiFrisco, Günter P. Wagner and Alan C. Love’s article “Reframing research on evolutionary novelty and co-option: Character identity mechanisms versus deep homology” was recently published in Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology. All are part of the Agency, Directionality & Function project. In the article, the authors “argue that research on evolutionary novelty and the closely associated phenomenon of co-option can be reframed fruitfully” in several ways.
Hugh Desmond, a member of the “Agency and Agential Explanation in the Evolutionary Sciences” project, recently co-authored “The integrated information theory of agency” in Cambridge University Press’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences. The authors propose that “measures of information integration can be more straightforwardly interpreted as measures of agency rather than of consciousness.”
