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.
Causation in Development and Evolution
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.
Mayr, E. (1961). “Cause and effect in biology.” Science 134: 1501–1506.
Milocco, L., & Uller, T. (2023). A data‐driven framework to model the organism–environment system. Evolution & Development, ede.12449.
Mirabel, A., Girardin, M. P., Metsaranta, J., Way, D., & Reich, P. B. (2023). Increasing atmospheric dryness reduces boreal forest tree growth. Nature Communications, 14(1), 6901.
Mitchell, J. L., Dunster, J. L., Kriek, N., Unsworth, A. J., Sage, T., Mohammed, Y. M. M., De Simone, I., Taylor, K. A., Bye, A. P., Ólafsson, G., Brunton, M., Mark, S., Dymott, L. D., Whyte, A., Ruparelia, N., Mckenna, C., Gibbins, J. M., & Jones, C. I. (2023). The rate of platelet activation determines thrombus size and structure at arterial shear. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 21(8), 2248–2259.
Montévil, M. (2023). How does randomness shape the living? In A. Duprat & others (Eds.), Figures of Chance.
Moss, L. & Newman, S. A. (2015). "The grassblade beyond Newton: the pragmatizing of Kant for evolutionary-developmental biology." Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Munasinghe, M., & Ågren, J. A. (2023). When and why are mitochondria paternally inherited? Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 80, 102053.
Newman, S. A. (2022). Self-organization in embryonic development: myth and reality. In Self-Organization as a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology: From Theory to Applied Cases in the Tree of Life” (p. 36).
Newman, S. A. (2023). Inherency and agency in the origin and evolution of biological functions. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 139(4), 487–502.
Newman, S. A. (n.d.). Inherency and agency in the origin and evolution of biological functions. "Inherency and Agency in the Origin and Evolution of Biological Functions." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blac109
Newman, S.A. (2012). "Physico-genetic determinants in the evolution of development." Science 338:217–219.
Newman, S.A. (2016). "’Biogeneric’ developmental processes: drivers of major transitions in animal evolution." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371(1701). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0443.>
Nicholls, J. W. F., Chin, J. P., Williams, T. A., Lenton, T. M., O’Flaherty, V., & McGrath, J. W. (2023). On the potential roles of phosphorus in the early evolution of energy metabolism. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1239189.
Nitschke, M. C., Black, A. J., Bourrat, P., & Rainey, P. B. (2023). The effect of bottleneck size on evolution in nested Darwinian populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 561, 111414.
Nöbel, S., Jacquet, A., Isabel, G., Pocheville, A., Seabright, P., & Danchin, E. (2023). Conformity in mate choice, the overlooked social component of animal and human culture. Biological Reviews, 98(1), 132–149.
Nuño de la Rosa, L., & Villegas, C. (2022). Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 73(2), 509–533.
Palakkan, A. A., Tarnick, J., Waterfall, M., Sallam, M., Glykofrydis, F., Elhendawi, M., & Davies, J. A. (2022). Production of kidney organoids arranged around single ureteric bud trees, and containing endogenous blood vessels, solely from embryonic stem cells. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 12573.
Pally, D., Goutham, S., & Bhat, R. (2022). Extracellular matrix as a driver for intratumoral heterogeneity. Physical Biology, 19(4), 043001.
Parke, E. C., & Plutynski, A. (2023). Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 97, 101–110.
Pavličev, M., & Wagner, G. P. (2022). The value of broad taxonomic comparisons in evolutionary medicine: Disease is not a trait but a state of a trait! MedComm, 3(4).
Pettersen, A. K., Nord, A., While, G. M., & Uller, T. (2023). How do fluctuating temperatures alter the cost of development? Functional Ecology, 1365-2435.14450.
Plutynski, A. (2022). On Explaining Peto’s Paradox. European Journal of Epidemiology.
Plutynski, A. (2022). Philosophical issues in cancer and public health. In A. Broadbent & S. Venkatapuram, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health (1st ed., pp. 393–406). Routledge.
Poliseli, L., Coutinho, J. G. E., Viana, B., Russo, F., & El-Hani, C. N. (2022). Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building. Biology & Philosophy, 37(4), 21.