Publications

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.

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.

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.>

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.

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.

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.