Publications

Adaptation and Adaptationism

Kong, R. S., Way, D. A., Henry, H. A. L., & Smith, N. G. (2022). Stomatal conductance, not biochemistry, drives low temperature acclimation of photosynthesis in Populus balsamifera, regardless of nitrogen availability. Plant Biology, plb.13428.

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.

Leptos, K. C., Chioccioli, M., Furlan, S., Pesci, A. I., & Goldstein, R. E. (2023). Phototaxis of Chlamydomonas arises from a tuned adaptive photoresponse shared with multicellular Volvocine green algae. Physical Review E, 107(1), 014404.

Lewens, T. (2004). Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.

Lima, D. S. da S., Paz, E. M. F. da, El-Hani, C. N., & Japyassú, H. F. (2022). A comparison between affiliative and agonistic behaviours in wild and captive Sapajus libidinosus (Spix, 1823) (Mammalia, Primates, Cebidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 62, e202262033.

Linquist, S. (2022). Causal-role myopia and the functional investigation of junk DNA. Biology & Philosophy, 37(4), 28.

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., & Dresow, M. (2022). Organizing Interdisciplinary Research on Purpose. BioScience, 72(4), 321–323.

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.

Mangan, R. J., Alsina, F. C., Mosti, F., Sotelo-Fonseca, J. E., Snellings, D. A., Au, E. H., Carvalho, J., Sathyan, L., Johnson, G. D., Reddy, T. E., Silver, D. L., & Lowe, C. B. (2022). Adaptive sequence divergence forged new neurodevelopmental enhancers in humans. Cell, 185(24), 4587-4603.e23.

Manzoni, S., Fatichi, S., Feng, X., Katul, G. G., Way, D., & Vico, G. (2022). Consistent responses of vegetation gas exchange to elevated atmospheric CO 2 emerge from heuristic and optimization models. Biogeosciences, 19(17), 4387–4414.

Maynard Smith, J. (1982). Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.

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

Menatti, L., Bich, L., & Saborido, C. (2022). Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 44(3), 38.

Mirani, A., & McAvoy, A. (2022). Payoff landscapes and the robustness of selfish optimization in iterated games. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 84(6), 55.

Nowak, M. (2006). Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.

O’Connor, C. (2019). The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

O’Connor, E. A., & Cornwallis, C. K. (2022). Immunity and lifespan: answering long-standing questions with comparative genomics. Trends in Genetics, S0168952522000580.

Obando, D., Wright, N., & Hill, J. (2022). Warmth and reciprocity with mothers, and young children’s resilience to exposure to community violence in Colombia: findings from the La Sabana Parent–Child Study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, jcpp.13629.

Okasha, S. (2018). Agents and Goals in Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Orzack, S.H. (2008). “Testing adaptive hypotheses, optimality models, and adaptationism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology. Edited by M. Ruse. New York: Oxford University Press, 87–112.

Orzack, S.H. and E. Sober. (ed) (2001). Adaptationism and Optimality. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Patten, M. M. (2022). Evolution: Various routes to sex determination. Current Biology, 32(9), R416–R418.

Patten, M. M., Schenkel, M. A., & Ågren, J. A. (2023). Adaptation in the face of internal conflict: the paradox of the organism revisited. Biological Reviews, brv.12983.