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.
Causation in Development and Evolution
Allen, B. (2023). Symmetry in models of natural selection. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 20(208), 20230306.
Allen, B., & McAvoy, A. (2022). The coalescent with arbitrary spatial and genetic structure (arXiv:2207.02880). arXiv.
Ardré, M., Doulcier, G., Brenner, N., & Rainey, P. B. (2022). A leader cell triggers end of lag phase in populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens. MicroLife, 3, uqac022.
Arora, G., Banerjee, M., Langthasa, J., Bhat, R., & Chatterjee, S. (2023). Targeting metabolic fluxes reverts metastatic transitions in ovarian cancer. IScience, 26(11), 108081.
Austin, C. (2021). Form, Cause, and Explanation in Biology: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective. In Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation (1st ed.). Routledge.
Barbier, M. (2023). Perturbation. In B. M. Haddad & B. D. Solomon (Eds.), Dictionary of Ecological Economics (pp. 405–406). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bechtel, W., & Bich, L. (2023). Using neurons to maintain autonomy: Learning from C. elegans. Biosystems, 232, 105017.
Bich, L. and Skillings, D. (2022). There are no intermediate stages: An organizational view of development. In M. Mossio (Ed.). Organization in Biology. New York: Springer.
Bolnick, D. I., Hund, A. K., Nosil, P., Peng, F., Ravinet, M., Stankowski, S., Subramanian, S., Wolf, J. B. W., & Yukilevich, R. (2023). A multivariate view of the speciation continuum. 77(1).
Bolotin, E., Melamed, D., & Livnat, A. (2021). Genes used together are more likely to be fused together in evolution by mutational mechanisms: A bioinformatic test of the used-fused hypothesis [Preprint]. Evolutionary Biology.
Bolotin, E., Melamed, D., & Livnat, A. (2022). Genes that are Used Together are More Likely to be Fused Together in Evolution by Mutational Mechanisms: A Bioinformatic Test of the Used-Fused Hypothesis. Evolutionary Biology.
Bourrat, P. (2022). A New Set of Criteria for Units of Selection. Biological Theory.
Bourrat, P. (2023). A Pricean Formalization of Gaia. Philosophy of Science, 1–34.
Bourrat, P. (2023). Multilevel selection 1, multilevel selection 2, and the Price equation: a reappraisal. Synthese, 202(3), 72.
Bourrat, P. (2023). When local causes are more explanatorily useful. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e185. Cambridge Core.
Bourrat, P., & Charbonneau, M. (2022). Grains of Description in Biological and Cultural Transmission. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 22(3–4), 185–202.
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.
Brun‐Usan, M., Zimm, R., & Uller, T. (2022). Beyond genotype‐phenotype maps: Toward a phenotype‐centered perspective on evolution. BioEssays, 2100225.
Chiu, L. (2019). “Decoupling, co-mingling and the evolutionary significance of experiential niche construction.” In Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections. Edited by T. Uller and K. Laland. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11693.003.0015.
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., 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.
Davín, A. A., Schrempf, D., Williams, T. A., Hugenholtz, P., & Szöllősi, G. J. (2022). Relative Time Inference Using Lateral Gene Transfers. In H. Luo (Ed.), Environmental Microbial Evolution (Vol. 2569, pp. 75–94). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2691-7_4