This bibliography gathers publications over many years from a variety of researchers exploring topics of agency, directionality, and function (among others) with a special emphasis on CASP members. It began with work from teams within the initial Agency, Directionality and Function project and continues to be populated with papers and articles from diverse researchers looking to further develop and expand ways of working interdisciplinarily on the complex theme of teleology.
Included in the bibliography are entries for publications and books that many scholars involved in the Agency, Directionality and Function project recommended as foundational texts in their field of study. We welcome suggestions for additions to the bibliography from CASP members.
Adaptation and Adaptationism
Gould, S.J. and R.C. Lewontin. (1979). “The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Part B: Biological Sciences 205:581–598.
Griffiths, P. E., & Bourrat, P. (2023). Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 11(1), 277–286.
Gurguis, C. I., & Duckworth, R. A. (2022). Dynamic Changes in Begging Signal Short-Term Information on Hunger and Need. The American Naturalist, 000–000.
Hull, D.L. (1980). “Individuality and selection.” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 11: 311–332.
Hund, A. K., Stretch, E., Smirnoff, D., Roehrig, G. H., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2023). Broadening the Taxonomic Breadth of Organisms in the Bio-Inspired Design Process. Biomimetics, 8(1), 48.
Keegan, G., & Patten, M. M. (2022). Selfish evolution of placental hormones. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 10(1), 391–397.
Kong, R. S., Way, D. A., Henry, H. A. L., & Smith, N. G. (2022). Stomatal conductance, not biochemistry, drives low temperature acclimation of photosynthesis in Populus balsamifera, regardless of nitrogen availability. Plant Biology, plb.13428.
Laland K.N., T. Uller T, M.W. Feldman, K. Sterelny K, G.B. Müller, A. Moczek A, E. Jablonka, and J. Odling-Smee. (2015). “The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions.” Proceedings of the Royal Society, Part B 282. 20151019.
Laland, K. (2018).Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Lennox, J.G. (1992) “Teleology.” In E.F. Keller and E.A. Lloyd (eds.) Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, 324–333. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.
Lennox, J.G. (1993). “Darwin was a teleologist.” Biology & Philosophy 8, 409–421.
Leptos, K. C., Chioccioli, M., Furlan, S., Pesci, A. I., & Goldstein, R. E. (2023). Phototaxis of Chlamydomonas arises from a tuned adaptive photoresponse shared with multicellular Volvocine green algae. Physical Review E, 107(1), 014404.
Lewens, T. (2004). Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.
Lima, D. S. da S., Paz, E. M. F. da, El-Hani, C. N., & Japyassú, H. F. (2022). A comparison between affiliative and agonistic behaviours in wild and captive Sapajus libidinosus (Spix, 1823) (Mammalia, Primates, Cebidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 62, e202262033.
Linquist, S. (2022). Causal-role myopia and the functional investigation of junk DNA. Biology & Philosophy, 37(4), 28.
Lloyd, E. (2001). “Units and levels of selection: an anatomy of the units of selection debates.” In Thinking About Evolution(Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives, vol. 2). Edited by R.S. Singh, C.B. Krimbas, D.B. Paul, and J. Beatty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Love, A. C., & Dresow, M. (2022). Organizing Interdisciplinary Research on Purpose. BioScience, 72(4), 321–323.
Lynch, M. (2007). “The frailty of adaptive hypotheses for the origins of organismal complexity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United State of America 104 (Suppl 1): 8597 - 8604.
Magner, E. T., Roy, R., Freund Saxhaug, K., Zambre, A., Bruns, K., Snell‐Rood, E. C., Hampton, M., Hegeman, A. D., & Carter, C. J. (2023). Post‐secretory synthesis of a natural analog of iron‐gall ink in the black nectar of Melianthus spp. New Phytologist, nph.18859.
Mangan, R. J., Alsina, F. C., Mosti, F., Sotelo-Fonseca, J. E., Snellings, D. A., Au, E. H., Carvalho, J., Sathyan, L., Johnson, G. D., Reddy, T. E., Silver, D. L., & Lowe, C. B. (2022). Adaptive sequence divergence forged new neurodevelopmental enhancers in humans. Cell, 185(24), 4587-4603.e23.
Manzoni, S., Fatichi, S., Feng, X., Katul, G. G., Way, D., & Vico, G. (2022). Consistent responses of vegetation gas exchange to elevated atmospheric CO 2 emerge from heuristic and optimization models. Biogeosciences, 19(17), 4387–4414.
Matheson, J., Bertram, J., & Masel, J. (2023). Human deleterious mutation rate implies high fitness variance, with declining mean fitness compensated by rarer beneficial mutations of larger effect [Preprint]. Evolutionary Biology.
Maynard Smith, J. (1982). Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.
Mayr, E. (1961). “Cause and effect in biology.” Science 134: 1501–1506.
Menatti, L., Bich, L., & Saborido, C. (2022). Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 44(3), 38.