Publications

Causation in Development and Evolution

DiFrisco, J., A.C. Love, and G.P. Wagner. (2020). “Character-identity mechanisms: A conceptual model for comparative-mechanistic biology.” Biology & Philosophy 35:44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-020-09762-2.

DiFrisco, J., Love, A. C., & Wagner, G. P. (2022). The hierarchical basis of serial homology and evolutionary novelty. Journal of Morphology, jmor.21531.

DiFrisco, J., Wagner, G. P., & Love, A. C. (2022). Reframing research on evolutionary novelty and co-option: Character identity mechanisms versus deep homology. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, S1084952122001033.

Erickson, J.R. and K. Echeverri (2018). "Learning from regeneration research organisms: The circuitous road to scar free wound healing." Developmental Biology 433(2):144–154.

Feiner, N., Radersma, R., Vasquez, L., Ringnér, M., Nystedt, B., Raine, A., Tobi, E. W., Heijmans, B. T., & Uller, T. (2022). Environmentally induced DNA methylation is inherited across generations in an aquatic keystone species. IScience, 25(5), 104303.

Gilbert, S.F. and D. Epel (2009). Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution. Sunderland: Sinauer.

Godfrey-Smith, P. (2001). “Three kinds of adaptationism.” In Adaptationism and Optimality. Edited by S.H. Orzack and E. Sober. New York: Cambridge University Press, 335–357.

Godfrey-Smith, P. (2009). Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gould, S.J. and E. Vrba. (1982). “Exaptation--A Missing Term in the Science of Form.” Paleobiology 8(1):4–15.

Gould, S.J. and R.C. Lewontin. (1979). “The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Part B: Biological Sciences 205:581–598.

Goy, I. (2014). “Epigenetic theories: Caspar Friedrich Wolff and Immanuel Kant.” In Kant’s Theory of Biology. Edited by I. Goy and E. Watkins. Berlin: De Gruyter, 43–60.

Hodsoll, J., Pickles, A., Bozicevic, L., Supraja, T. A., Hill, J., Chandra, P. S., & Sharp, H. (2022). A Comparison of Non-verbal Maternal Care of Male and Female Infants in India and the United Kingdom: The Parent-Infant Caregiving Touch Scale in Two Cultures. Frontiers in Psychology, 13.

Hull, D.L. (1980). “Individuality and selection.” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 11: 311–332.

Laland K.N., T. Uller T, M.W. Feldman, K. Sterelny K, G.B. Müller, A. Moczek A, E. Jablonka, and J. Odling-Smee. (2015). “The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions.” Proceedings of the Royal Society, Part B 282. 20151019.

Laland, K. (2018).Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Laland, K.N., J. Odling-Smee, and S.F. Gilbert. (2008). “EvoDevo and Niche Construction: Building Bridges.” Journal of Experimental Zoology 310B:549–566.

Liow, L. H., Uyeda, J., & Hunt, G. (2022). Cross-disciplinary information for understanding macroevolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, S0169534722002804.

Lloyd, E. (2001). “Units and levels of selection: an anatomy of the units of selection debates.” In Thinking About Evolution(Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives, vol. 2). Edited by R.S. Singh, C.B. Krimbas, D.B. Paul, and J. Beatty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Love, A. C., & Wagner, G. P. (2022). Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties. Evolution, 76(3), 394–413.

Love, A.C., Grabowski, M., Houle, D., Hsiang Liow, L., Porto, A., Tsuboi, M., Voje, K.L. and Hunt, G. (2021). “Evolvability in the fossil record.” Paleobiology 1–24. Doi:10/1017/pab.2021.36.

Lu, Q., & Bourrat, P. (2022). On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 94, 87–98.

Lynch, M. (2007). “The frailty of adaptive hypotheses for the origins of organismal complexity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United State of America 104 (Suppl 1): 8597 - 8604.

Matheson, J., & Masel, J. (2022). Background selection theory overestimates effective population size for high mutation rates [Preprint]. Evolutionary Biology.

Mayr, E. (1961). “Cause and effect in biology.” Science 134: 1501–1506.

Moss, L. & Newman, S. A. (2015). "The grassblade beyond Newton: the pragmatizing of Kant for evolutionary-developmental biology." Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.