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.
History of Life and the Fossil Record
Bowles, A. M. C., Williamson, C. J., Williams, T. A., Lenton, T. M., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2022). The origin and early evolution of plants. Trends in Plant Science, S1360138522002710.
Bowyer, F. T., Krause, A. J., Song, Y., Huang, K.-J., Fu, Y., Shen, B., Li, J., Zhu, X.-K., Kipp, M. A., van Maldegem, L. M., Brocks, J. J., Shields, G. A., & Poulton, S. W. (2023). Biological diversification linked to environmental stabilization following the Sturtian Snowball glaciation. Science Advances, 9, eadf9999.
Bowyer, F. T., Krause, A. J., Song, Y., Huang, K.-J., Fu, Y., Shen, B., Li, J., Zhu, X.-K., Kipp, M. A., van Maldegem, L. M., Brocks, J. J., Shields, G. A., & Poulton, S. W. (2023). Biological diversification linked to environmental stabilization following the Sturtian Snowball glaciation. Science Advances, 9, eadf9999.
Boyle, R. A., & Lenton, T. M. (2022). The evolution of biogeochemical recycling by persistence-based selection. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 46.
Carlisle, E., Janis, C. M., Pisani, D., Donoghue, P. C. J., & Silvestro, D. (2023). A timescale for placental mammal diversification based on Bayesian modeling of the fossil record. Current Biology, 33(15), 3073-3082.e3.
Clark, J. W., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2023). Constraining Whole-Genome Duplication Events in Geological Time. In Y. Van de Peer (Ed.), Polyploidy (Vol. 2545, pp. 139–154). Springer US.
Clark, J. W., Harris, B. J., Hetherington, A. J., Hurtado-Castano, N., Brench, R. A., Casson, S., Williams, T. A., Gray, J. E., & Hetherington, A. M. (2022). The origin and evolution of stomata. Current Biology, 32(11), R539–R553.
Clark, J. W., Hetherington, A. J., Morris, J. L., Pressel, S., Duckett, J. G., Puttick, M. N., Schneider, H., Kenrick, P., Wellman, C. H., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2023). Evolution of phenotypic disparity in the plant kingdom. Nature Plants.
Cornwallis, C. K., Van ’T Padje, A., Ellers, J., Klein, M., Jackson, R., Kiers, E. T., West, S. A., & Henry, L. M. (2023). Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Cuypers, V., Reydon, T. A. C., & Artois, T. (2022). Deceiving insects, deceiving taxonomists? Making theoretical sense of taxonomic disagreement in the European orchid genus Ophrys. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 56, 125686.
Dearden, R., Jones, A., Giles, S., Lanzetti, A., Grohganz, M., Johanson, Z., Lautenschlager, S., Randle, E., Donoghue, P. C. J., & Sansom, I. J. (2023). The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in Palaeozoic jawless fishes [Preprint]. Paleontology.
DiFrisco, J., Love, A. C., & Wagner, G. P. (2022). The hierarchical basis of serial homology and evolutionary novelty. Journal of Morphology, jmor.21531.
Dong, X., Duan, B., Liu, J., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2022). Internal anatomy of a fossilized embryonic stage of the Cambrian-Ordovician scalidophoran Markuelia. Royal Society Open Science, 9(10), 220115.
Donoghue, P. C. J., Kay, C., Spang, A., Szöllősi, G., Nenarokova, A., Moody, E. R. R., Pisani, D., & Williams, T. A. (2023). Defining eukaryotes to dissect eukaryogenesis. Current Biology, 33(17), R919–R929.
Dresow, M. (2023). Problematica.
Dresow, M. (Forthcoming). “Measuring time with fossils: a start-up problem in scientific practice.” Philosophy of Science.
Evans, S. D., Hunt, G., Gehling, J. G., Sperling, E. A., & Droser, M. L. (2023). Species of Dickinsonia Sprigg from the Ediacaran of South Australia. Palaeontology, 66(1).
Ferrón, H. G., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2022). Evolutionary analysis of swimming speed in early vertebrates challenges the ‘New Head Hypothesis.’ Communications Biology, 5(1), 863.
Gai, Z., Li, Q., Ferrón, H. G., Keating, J. N., Wang, J., Donoghue, P. C. J., & Zhu, M. (2022). Galeaspid anatomy and the origin of vertebrate paired appendages. Nature, 609(7929), 959–963.
Gai, Z., Lin, X., Shan, X., Ferrón, H. G., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2023). Postcranial disparity of galeaspids and the evolution of swimming speeds in stem-gnathostomes. National Science Review, 10(7), nwad050.
Giacomelli, M., Rossi, M. E., Lozano-Fernandez, J., Feuda, R., & Pisani, D. (2022). Resolving tricky nodes in the tree of life through amino acid recoding. IScience, 25(12), 105594.
Gould, S.J. (1987). Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.
Harris, B. J., Clark, J. W., Schrempf, D., Szöllősi, G. J., Donoghue, P. C. J., Hetherington, A. M., & Williams, T. A. (2022). Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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.
Hou, J.-B., Hughes, N. C., Hopkins, M. J., & Shu, D. (2023). Gill function in an early arthropod and the widespread adoption of the countercurrent exchange mechanism. Royal Society Open Science, 10(8), 230341.