Evolutionary Origins and Transitions of Agency

Bourrat, P. (2023). When local causes are more explanatorily useful. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e185. Cambridge Core.

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.

Bourrat, P., Godsoe, W., Pillai, P., Gouhier, T. C., Ulrich, W., Gotelli, N. J., & Van Veelen, M. (2023). What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology? Oikos, e10024.

Bourrat, P. (2023). A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes. Biology & Philosophy, 38(4), 33.

Lauber, N., Tichacek, O., Bose, R., Flamm, C., Leuzzi, L., Tang, T.-Y. D., Ruiz-Mirazo, K., & De Martino, D. (2023). Statistical mechanics of biomolecular condensates via cavity methods. IScience, 26(4), 106300.

Ardré, M., Doulcier, G., Brenner, N., & Rainey, P. B. (2022). A leader cell triggers end of lag phase in populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens. MicroLife, 3, uqac022. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsml/uqac022

Bourrat, P. (2023). A Pricean Formalization of Gaia. Philosophy of Science, 1–34.

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.

Moreno, A. (2023). Some Reflections on the Evolution of Conscious Agents: The Relevance of Body Plans. Biosemiotics.

Tang, S., Pichugin, Y., & Hammerschmidt, K. (2023). An environmentally induced multicellular life cycle of a unicellular cyanobacterium. Current Biology, 33(4), 764-769.e5.