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.
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Physiology
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.
Mitchell, J. L., Khan, D., Rana, R. H., Kriek, N., Unsworth, A. J., Sage, T., Bye, A. P., Laffan, M., Shapiro, S., Thakurta, A., Grech, H., Ramasamy, K., & Gibbins, J. M. (2023). Multiple myeloma and its treatment contribute to increased platelet reactivity. Platelets, 34(1), 2264940.
Mitchell, J. L., Little, G., Bye, A. P., Gaspar, R. S., Unsworth, A. J., Kriek, N., Sage, T., Stainer, A., Sangowawa, I., Morrow, G. B., Bastos, R. N., Shapiro, S., Desborough, M. J. R., Curry, N., Gibbins, J. M., Whyte, C. S., Mutch, N. J., & Jones, C. I. (2023). Platelet factor XIII-A regulates platelet function and promotes clot retraction and stability. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 7(5), 100200.
Nelson, M. R., Gibbins, J. M., & Dunster, J. L. (2023). Platelet-driven routes to chaos in a model of hepatitis. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 170, 113338.
Provenzale, I., De Simone, I., Gibbins, J. M., Heemskerk, J. W. M., Van Der Meijden, P. E. J., & Jones, C. I. (2023). Regulation of Glycoprotein VI-Dependent Platelet Activation and Thrombus Formation by Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan Perlecan. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(17), 13352.
Schmiege, S. C., Heskel, M., Fan, Y., & Way, D. A. (2023). It’s only natural: Plant respiration in unmanaged systems. Plant Physiology, 192(2), 710–727.
Schmiege, S. C., Sharkey, T. D., Walker, B., Hammer, J., & Way, D. A. (2023). Laisk measurements in the nonsteady state: Tests in plants exposed to warming and variable CO2 concentrations. Plant Physiology, 193(2), 1045–1057.
Thienel, M., Müller-Reif, J. B., Zhang, Z., Ehreiser, V., Huth, J., Shchurovska, K., Kilani, B., Schweizer, L., Geyer, P. E., Zwiebel, M., Novotny, J., Lüsebrink, E., Little, G., Orban, M., Nicolai, L., El Nemr, S., Titova, A., Spannagl, M., Kindberg, J., … Petzold, T. (2023). Immobility-associated thromboprotection is conserved across mammalian species from bear to human. Science, 380(6641), 178–187.
Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Arora, G., Banerjee, M., Langthasa, J., Bhat, R., & Chatterjee, S. (2023). Targeting metabolic fluxes reverts metastatic transitions in ovarian cancer. IScience, 26(11), 108081.
Black, A.J., Bourrat, P. and Rainey, P.B. (2020). “Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 4:426–436.
Bourrat, P. (2019). “Evolutionary transitions in heritability and individuality.” Theory in Biosciences 138:305–323.
Bourrat, P. (2022). Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 719118.
Bourrat, P. (2023). A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes. Biology & Philosophy, 38(4), 33.
Bourrat, P. (2023). Multilevel selection 1, multilevel selection 2, and the Price equation: a reappraisal. Synthese, 202(3), 72.
Bourrat, P., Doulcier, G., Rose, C. J., Rainey, P. B., & Hammerschmidt, K. (2022). Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor. ELife, 11, e73715.
Brooks, D. S., DiFrisco, J., & Wimsatt, W. C. (2021). Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences. MIT Press.
Buss, L. (1987). The Evolution of Individuality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Caldwell, J., Knowles, J., Thies, C., Kubacki, F., & Watson, R. (2022). Deep Optimisation: Transitioning the Scale of Evolutionary Search by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations. SN Computer Science, 3(3), 253.
Caldwell, J., Knowles, J., Thies, C., Kubacki, F., & Watson, R. (2022). Deep Optimisation: Transitioning the Scale of Evolutionary Search by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations. SN Computer Science, 3(3), 253.
Cornwallis, C. K., Svensson-Coelho, M., Lindh, M., Li, Q., Stábile, F., Hansson, L.-A., & Rengefors, K. (2023). Single-cell adaptations shape evolutionary transitions to multicellularity in green algae. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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.
Doulcier, G., Hammerschmidt, K., & Bourrat, P. (2020). Life history tradeoffs, division of labor and evolutionary transitions in individuality [Preprint]. Evolutionary Biology.
Godfrey-Smith, P. (2009). Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Godfrey-Smith, P. (2012). “Darwinian individuals.” In From Groups to Individuals: New Perspectives on Biological Associations and Emerging Individuality.” Edited by F. Bouchard and P. Huneman. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.