Publications

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., 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.

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.

Lauber, N., Tichacek, O., Narayanankutty, K., De Martino, D., & Ruiz-Mirazo, K. (2023). Modelling spatial constraints and scaling effects of catalyst phase separation on linear pathway kinetics (arXiv:2302.05315). arXiv.

Maynard Smith. J. and Szathmary, E. (1995). The Major Transitions in Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Michod, R.E. (2007). “Evolution of individuality during the transition from unicellular to multicellular life.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America 104(suppl 1):8613–8618.

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

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.

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.>

Nitschke, M. C., Black, A. J., Bourrat, P., & Rainey, P. B. (2023). The effect of bottleneck size on evolution in nested Darwinian populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 561, 111414.

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.

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

Pradeu, T., Daignan‐Fornier, B., Ewald, A., Germain, P., Okasha, S., Plutynski, A., Benzekry, S., Bertolaso, M., Bissell, M., Brown, J. S., Chin‐Yee, B., Chin‐Yee, I., Clevers, H., Cognet, L., Darrason, M., Farge, E., Feunteun, J., Galon, J., Giroux, E., … Laplane, L. (2023). Reuniting philosophy and science to advance cancer research. Biological Reviews, brv.12971.

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.