Publications

Trestman, M.A. (2012). Implicit and explicit goal-directedness. Erkenntnis 77:207–236.

Walsh, D. (2008). “Teleology.” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology. Edited by M. Ruse. New York: Oxford University Press, 113–137.

Williams, G.C. (1966). Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Wimsatt, W.C. (1972). “Teleology and the logical structure of function statements.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 3:1–80.

Wimsatt, W.C. (2002). “Functional organization, analogy and inference.” In Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology. Edited by A. Ariew, R. Cummins and M. Perlman. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wouters, A. (2004). “The function debate in philosophy.” Acta Biotheoretica 53:123–151.

Wouters, A. (2007). “Design explanation: determining the constraints on what can be alive.” Erkenntnis 67:65–80.

Wright, L. (1973). “Functions.” The Philosophical Review 82(2):139–168.

Wright, L. (1976). >Teleological Explanations: An Etiological Analysis of Goals and Functions. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Zammito, J. (2006). “Teleology then and now: The question of Kant’s relevance for contemporary controversies over function in biology.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37(4):748–770.

Zammito, J. (2018). The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Álvarez-Carretero, S., Kapli, P., & Yang, Z. (2023). Beginner’s Guide on the Use of PAML to Detect Positive Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(4), msad041.

Álvarez-Carretero, S., Kapli, P., & Yang, Z. (2023). Beginner’s Guide on the Use of PAML to Detect Positive Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(4), msad041.

Au, E. H., Fauci, C., Luo, Y., Mangan, R. J., Snellings, D. A., Shoben, C. R., Weaver, S., Simpson, S. K., & Lowe, C. B. (2023). Gonomics: uniting high performance and readability for genomics with Go. Bioinformatics, 39(8), btad516.

Davín, A. A., Schrempf, D., Williams, T. A., Hugenholtz, P., & Szöllősi, G. J. (2022). Relative Time Inference Using Lateral Gene Transfers. In H. Luo (Ed.), Environmental Microbial Evolution (Vol. 2569, pp. 75–94). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2691-7_4

Gehlert, F. O., Nickel, L., Vakirlis, N., Hammerschmidt, K., Vargas Gebauer, H. I., Kießling, C., Kupczok, A., & Schmitz, R. A. (2023). Active in vivo translocation of the Methanosarcina mazei Gö1 Casposon. Nucleic Acids Research, 51(13), 6927–6943.

Gomez-Garrido, J., Cruz, F., Alioto, T. S., Feiner, N., Uller, T., Gut, M., Sanchez Escudero, I., Tavecchia, G., Rotger, A., Otalora Acevedo, K. E., & Baldo, L. (2023). Chromosome-level genome assembly of Lilford’s wall lizard, Podarcis lilfordi (Günther, 1874) from the Balearic Islands (Spain). DNA Research, 30(3), dsad008.

Juravel, K., Porras, L., Höhna, S., Pisani, D., & Wörheide, G. (2023). Exploring genome gene content and morphological analysis to test recalcitrant nodes in the animal phylogeny. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0282444.

Lin, H., Moody, E. R. R., Williams, T. A., & Moreau, J. (2023). On the Origin and Evolution of Microbial Mercury Methylation. Genome Biology and Evolution, 15(4).

Livnat, A., & Melamed, D. (2023). Evolutionary honing in and mutational replacement: how long-term directed mutational responses to specific environmental pressures are possible. Theory in Biosciences, 142(2), 87–105.

Sarkar S. GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2023;46:e227.

Valach, M., Moreira, S., Petitjean, C., Benz, C., Butenko, A., Flegontova, O., Nenarokova, A., Prokopchuk, G., Batstone, T., Lapébie, P., Lemogo, L., Sarrasin, M., Stretenowich, P., Tripathi, P., Yazaki, E., Nara, T., Henrissat, B., Lang, B. F., Gray, M. W., … Burger, G. (2023). Recent expansion of metabolic versatility in Diplonema papillatum, the model species of a highly speciose group of marine eukaryotes. BMC Biology, 21(1), 99.

Williams, S. E., Back, C. R., Best, E., Mantell, J., Stach, J. E. M., Williams, T. A., Race, P. R., & Curnow, P. (2023). Discovery and biosynthetic assessment of “Streptomyces ortus” sp. nov. isolated from a deep-sea sponge. Microbial Genomics, 9(5).

Yazdi, H. P., Olito, C., Kawakami, T., Unneberg, P., Schou, M. F., Cloete, S. W. P., Hansson, B., & Cornwallis, C. K. (2023). The evolutionary maintenance of ancient recombining sex chromosomes in the ostrich. PLOS Genetics, 19(6), e1010801.

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.