Publications

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.>

Nitschke, M. C., Black, A. J., Bourrat, P., & Rainey, P. B. (2023). The effect of bottleneck size on evolution in nested Darwinian populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 561, 111414.

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.

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.