Publications

Causation in Development and Evolution

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.

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.

Dawkins, R. (1976).The Selfish Gene.Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dawkins, R. (1982).The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as the Unit of Selection.Oxford: Oxford University Press.

DiFrisco, J. (n.d.). Body Plan Identity: A Mechanistic Model. Evolutionary Biology, 1

DiFrisco, J. and J. Jaeger. (2019). “Beyond networks: mechanism and process in evo-devo.” Biology and Philosophy 34:54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-019-9716-9.

DiFrisco, J. and J. Jaeger. (2020). Genetic causation in complex regulatory systems: an integrative dynamical perspective.” Bioessays 42:6.https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.201900226.

DiFrisco, J., A.C. Love, and G.P. Wagner. (2020). “Character-identity mechanisms: A conceptual model for comparative-mechanistic biology.” Biology & Philosophy 35:44.

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.

Du Crest, A., Valković, M., Ariew, A., Desmond, H., Huneman, P., & Reydon, T. A. C. (Eds.). (2023). Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism (Vol. 478). Springer International Publishing.

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.

Forti, L. R., Szabo, J. K., & Japyassú, H. F. (2023). Host manipulation by parasites through the lens of Niche Construction Theory. Behavioural Processes, 210, 104907.

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.

Griffiths, P. E., & Bourrat, P. (2023). Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 11(1), 277–286.