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.
Directionality in Development and Evolution
Alroy, J., M. Aberhan, D.J. Bottjer, M. Foote, F.T. Fürsich, P.J. Harries, A.J.W. Hendy, S.M. Holland, L.C. Ivany, W. Kiessling, M.A. Kosnik, C.R. Marshall, A.J. McGowan, A.I. Miller, T.D. Olszewski, M.E. Patzkowsky, S.E. Peters, L. Villier, P.J. Wagner, N. Bonuso, P.S. Borkow, B. Brenneis, M.E. Clapham, L.M. Fall, C.A. Ferguson, V.L. Hanson, A.Z. Krug, K.M. Layou, E.H. Leckey, S. Nürnberg, C.M. Powers, J.A. Sessa, C. Simpson, A. Tomašových, C.C. Visaggi. (2008). “Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates.” Science 321:97–100.
Argüelles-Moyao, A., Benítez, M., Escalante, A. E., & Garibay-Orijel, R. (2022). Unipartite and bipartite mycorrhizal networks of Abies religiosa forests: Incorporating network theory into applied ecology of conifer species and forest management. Ecological Complexity, 50, 101002.
Badyaev, A. V., Sánchez Moreno, C., A. Lee, C., Britton, S. E., Johnstone, L. M., Duckworth, R. A. (2026). Ultimate paths of least resistance: intrinsically disordered proteins as developmental resets in regulatory networks. Proc Biol Sci; 293. 20252393.
Barbier, M. (2023). Ecological perturbation. In B. M. Haddad & B. D. Solomon (Eds.), Dictionary of Ecological Economics (pp. 153–153). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Baselga-Cervera, B., Jacobsen, K. A., Ford Denison, R., & Travisano, M. (2023). Experimental evolution in the cyanobacterium Trichormus variabilis : increases in size and morphological diversity. Evolution, 77(5), 1216–1225.
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.
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.
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., Rago, A., Thies, C., Uller, T., & Watson, R. A. (2021). Development and selective grain make plasticity “take the lead” in adaptive evolution. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21(1), 205.
Buss, L. (1987). The Evolution of Individuality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Chenard, K. C. and R. A. Duckworth (2021). The special case of behavioral plasticity? Phenotypic plasticity and evolution: causes, consequences, controversies. D. W. Pfennig. Boca Raton, Florida., CRC Press: 301–325.
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.
Dang, C. C., Minh, B. Q., Mcshea, H., Masel, J., James, J. E., Sy, L., & Lanfear, R. (2022). nQMaker: Estimating Time Nonreversible Amino Acid Substitution Models. Systematic Biology, 14.
Deakin, W. J., Anderson, P. SL., den Boer, W., Smith, T. J., Hill, J. J., Rücklin, M., Donoghue, P. CJ., & Rayfield, E. J. (2022). Increasing morphological disparity and decreasing optimality for jaw speed and strength during the radiation of jawed vertebrates. Science Advances, 8(11), 13.
Desmond, H., & Ramsey, G. (2023). Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications. Oxford University Press.
Doulcier, G., & Lambert, A. (2023). Neutral Diversity in Experimental Metapopulations (arXiv:2307.06393). arXiv.
Duckworth, R. A. (2020). Catastrophes and Calms. Aeon.
Dylewsky, D., Lenton, T. M., Scheffer, M., Bury, T. M., Fletcher, C. G., Anand, M., & Bauch, C. T. (2023). Universal early warning signals of phase transitions in climate systems. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 20(201), 20220562.
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.
Han, L., He, C., Dinh, H., Fricks, J., & Kuang, Y. (2022). Learning Biological Dynamics From Spatio-Temporal Data by Gaussian Processes. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 84(7), 69.
Hopkins, M. J., & To, R. (2022). Long-term clade-wide shifts in trilobite segment number and allocation during the Palaeozoic. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1989), 20221765.