Publications

Okasha, S. (2018). Agents and Goals in Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Orzack, S.H. (2008). “Testing adaptive hypotheses, optimality models, and adaptationism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology. Edited by M. Ruse. New York: Oxford University Press, 87–112.

Orzack, S.H. and E. Sober. (ed) (2001). Adaptationism and Optimality. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Patten, M. M. (2022). Evolution: Various routes to sex determination. Current Biology, 32(9), R416–R418.

Patten, M. M., Schenkel, M. A., & Ågren, J. A. (2023). Adaptation in the face of internal conflict: the paradox of the organism revisited. Biological Reviews, brv.12983.

Pittendrigh, C.S. (1958). "Adaptation, natural selection, and behavior.” InBehavior and Evolution. Edited by A. Roe and G.G. Simpson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 390–416.

Pontarotti, G., Dussault, A. C., & Merlin, F. (2022). Conceptualizing the Environment in Natural Sciences: Guest Editorial. Biological Theory, 17(1), 1–3.

Potochnik, A. (2008). "Optimality modeling in a suboptimal world." Biology & Philosophy 24(2): 183–197.

Reiss, J.O. (2009). Not by Design: Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Rose, M.R. and Lauder, G.V. (1996). Adaptation. London: Academic Press.

Roy, R., Moreno, N., Brockman, S. A., Kostanecki, A., Zambre, A., Holl, C., Solhaug, E. M., Minami, A., Snell-Rood, E. C., Hampton, M., Bee, M. A., Chiari, Y., Hegeman, A. D., & Carter, C. J. (2022). Convergent evolution of a blood-red nectar pigment in vertebrate-pollinated flowers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(5), e2114420119.

Ruse, M. (1989). “Teleology in biology: is it a cause for concern?” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 4(2): 51 - 54.

Ruse, M. (2003).Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.

Sfara, E. (2022). On hemianopsia, vision and adaptive reactions in organism’s pathological states.

Shephard, A. M., Knudsen, K., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2023). Anthropogenic sodium influences butterfly responses to nitrogen-enriched resources: implications for the nitrogen limitation hypothesis. Oecologia, 201(4), 941–952.

Simpson, G.G. (1958). “The study of evolution.” InBehavior and Evolution.Edited by A. Roe and G.G. Simpson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 7–26.

Snell-Rood, E. C., & Smirnoff, D. (2023). Biology for biomimetics I: function as an interdisciplinary bridge in bio-inspired design. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 18(5), 052001.

Steck, M. K., Zambre, A. M., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2022). Plasticity in resource choice: a time-limited butterfly prioritizes apparency over quality. Animal Behaviour, S0003347222003189.

Takacs, P., & Bourrat, P. (2021). Fitness: static or dynamic? European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11(4), 112.

Takacs, P., & Bourrat, P. (2022). The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness. Biology & Philosophy, 37(2), 12.

Turner, J.S. (2007).The Tinkerer’s Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

W. Schulz, A. (2023). Explaining Human Diversity: the Need to Balance Fit and Complexity. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 14(2), 457–475.

Walsh, D. (2015). Organisms, Agency and Evolution. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.

Williams, G.C. (1966). Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Wouters, A. (2007). “Design explanation: determining the constraints on what can be alive.” Erkenntnis 67:65–80.