Publications

Michod, R.E. and Roze, D. (2001). “Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of multicellularity.” Heredity 86:1–7.

Militello, G., Bich, L., & Moreno, A. (2021). Functional Integration and Individuality in Prokaryotic Collective Organisations. Acta Biotheoretica, 69(3), 391–415.

Moin Afshar, N., Cinotti, F., Martin, D. A., Khamassi, M., Calu, D. J., Taylor, J. R., & Groman, S. M. (2022). Reward-mediated, model-free reinforcement-learning mechanisms in Pavlovian and instrumental tasks are related. The Journal of Neuroscience, JN-RM-1113-22.

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.

Mossio, M. and A. Moreno. (2015). Biological Autonomy. Springer Dordrecht.

Nanjundiah, V., Geeta, R., & Suslov, V. V. (2022). Revisiting N.I. Vavilov’s “The Law of Homologous Series in Variation” (1922). Biological Theory, s13752-022-00403–3.

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.>

Newman, S.A. (2022). “Form, function, agency: sources of natural purpose in animal evolution.” In Evolution ‘on Purpose’: Teleonomy in Living Systems. Edited by P. Corning, D. Noble, J. Shapiro and R. Vane-Wright. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.

O’Malley, M.A. and Powell, R. (2016). “Major problems in evolutionary transitions: how a metabolic perspective can enrich our understanding of macroevolution.” Biology & Philosophy 31:159–189.

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

Pepper, J.W. and Herron, M. (2008). “Does biology need an organism concept?” Biological Reviews 83:621–627.

Queller, D.C. and Strassman, J.E. (2009). “Beyond society: the evolution of organismality.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Part B: Biological Sciences 364:3143–3155.

Rosen, R. (1991). Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin and Fabrication of Life. New York: Columbia University Press.

Rosslenbroich (2014). On the Origin of Autonomy: A New Look at the Major Transitions in Evolution. Springer Dordrecht.

Rosslenbroich, B. (2009). “Outline of a concept for an organismic systems biology.” Seminars in Cancer Biology 21(3):156–164.

Russell, E.S. (1945). The Directiveness of Organic Activities. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.

Scott-Phillips, T.C., K.N. Laland, D.M. Shuker, T.E. Dickins and S.A. West. (2014). "The niche construction perspective: a critical appraisal." Evolution 68(5):1231–1243.

Sterelny, K. and Calcott, B. (2011). The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.

Sultan, S. E., Moczek, A. P., & Walsh, D. (2022). Bridging the explanatory gaps: What can we learn from a biological agency perspective? BioEssays, 44(1), e2100185. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202100185.

Sultan, S., Moczek, A. and Walsh, D. (2021). “What can we learn from a biological agency perspective?” BioEssays 44: https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202100185.

Szathmary, E. (2015). “Toward major transitions theory 2.0.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America 112:10104–10111.

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

Uller, T. and H. Helanterä. (2019). “Niche construction and conceptual change in evolutionary biology. The British Journal for Philosophy of Science 70:351–375.