Publications

Transitions in Agency/Individuality

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.

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

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

Tang, S., Pichugin, Y., & Hammerschmidt, K. (2023). An environmentally induced multicellular life cycle of a unicellular cyanobacterium. Current Biology, 33(4), 764-769.e5.

Taubenheim, C., & Hammerschmidt, K. (2022). Vom Ein- zum Vielzeller — Cyanobakterien als Modellsystem. BIOspektrum, 28(5), 475–477.

Taubenheim, C., & Hammerschmidt, K. (2022). Vom Ein- zum Vielzeller — Cyanobakterien als Modellsystem. BIOspektrum, 28(5), 475–477.

Watson, R. A., Levin, M., & Buckley, C. L. (2022). Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10.

West, S.A., Fisher, R.M., Gardner, A. and Toby Kiers, E. (2015). “Major evolutionary transitions in individuality.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America 112:10112–10119.