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.
Directionality in Development and Evolution
Duckworth, R. A. (2020). Catastrophes and Calms. Aeon.
Dylewsky, D., Lenton, T. M., Scheffer, M., Bury, T. M., Fletcher, C. G., Anand, M., & Bauch, C. T. (2023). Universal early warning signals of phase transitions in climate systems. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 20(201), 20220562.
Forti, L. R., Szabo, J. K., & Japyassú, H. F. (2023). Host manipulation by parasites through the lens of Niche Construction Theory. Behavioural Processes, 210, 104907.
Gilbert, S.F. and D. Epel (2009). Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution. Sunderland: Sinauer.
Han, L., He, C., Dinh, H., Fricks, J., & Kuang, Y. (2022). Learning Biological Dynamics From Spatio-Temporal Data by Gaussian Processes. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 84(7), 69.
Hopkins, M. J., & To, R. (2022). Long-term clade-wide shifts in trilobite segment number and allocation during the Palaeozoic. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1989), 20221765.
Hunt, G. (2007). “The Relative Importance of Directional Change, Random Walks, and Stasis in the Evolution of Fossil Lineages.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America 104(47):18404–18408.
Hunt, G. and D.L. Rabosky (2014). "Phenotypic Evolution in Fossil Species: Pattern and Process." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 42(1):421–441.
Hunt, G., M.J. Hopkins and S. Lidgard (2015). "Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America 112: 4885–4890.
James, J., Nelson, P., & Masel, J. (2022). Differential retention of Pfam domains creates long-term evolutionary trends [Preprint]. Evolutionary Biology.
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.N., J. Odling-Smee, and S.F. Gilbert. (2008). “EvoDevo and Niche Construction: Building Bridges.” Journal of Experimental Zoology 310B:549–566.
Livnat, A., & Melamed, D. (2023). Evolutionary honing in and mutational replacement: how long-term directed mutational responses to specific environmental pressures are possible. Theory in Biosciences, 142(2), 87–105.
Lloyd, D., Nanjundiah, V., Engelmann, W., & Johnsson, A. (2023). Ultradian rhythms: Life’s dance to the music of time*. Journal of Biosciences, 48(4), 34.
Love, A. C., & Dresow, M. (2022). Organizing Interdisciplinary Research on Purpose. BioScience, 72(4), 321–323.
Love, A. C., Grabowski, M., Houle, D., Liow, L. H., Porto, A., Tsuboi, M., Voje, K. L., & Hunt, G. (2021). Evolvability in the fossil record. Paleobiology, 1–24.
Love, A.C., Grabowski, M., Houle, D., Hsiang Liow, L., Porto, A., Tsuboi, M., Voje, K.L. and Hunt, G. (2021). “Evolvability in the fossil record.” Paleobiology 1–24. Doi:10/1017/pab.2021.36.
Lowe, C. B., M. Kellis, A. Siepel, B.J. Raney, M. Clamp, S.R. Salama, D.M. Kingsley, K. Lindblad-Toh, and D. Haussler, (2011). “Three periods of regulatory innovation during vertebrate evolution.” Science 333:1019–1024.
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.
Maynard Smith. J. and Szathmary, E. (1995). The Major Transitions in Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McShea, D.W. (2012). “Upper-directed systems: a new approach to teleology in biology.” Biology and Philosophy 27:663–688.
McShea, D.W. and R.N. Brandon. (2010). Biology’s First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Biological Systems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Michod, R.E. (2007). “Evolution of individuality during the transition from unicellular to multicellular life.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America 104(suppl 1):8613–8618.
Michod, R.E. and Roze, D. (2001). “Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of multicellularity.” Heredity 86:1–7.
Moreno, A. (2007). “A systemic approach to the origin of biological organization.” In Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations. Edited by F.C. Boogerd, F.J. Bruggeman, J.S. Hofmeyr and H.V. Westerhoff. Amsterdam: Elsevier.