Higher-Level Agency and Directionality in Ecology and Earth Science

Pisani, D., Rossi, M. E., Marlétaz, F., & Feuda, R. (2022). Phylogenomics: Is less more when using large-scale datasets? Current Biology, 32(24), R1340–R1342.

Giacomelli, M., Rossi, M. E., Lozano-Fernandez, J., Feuda, R., & Pisani, D. (2022). Resolving tricky nodes in the tree of life through amino acid recoding. IScience, 25(12), 105594.

Lenton, T. M., Boulton, C. A., & Scheffer, M. (2022). Resilience of countries to COVID-19 correlated with trust. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 75.

Results are available as a .csv file. Data and R code are available at GitHub.

Kemp, L., Xu, C., Depledge, J., Ebi, K. L., Gibbins, G., Kohler, T. A., Rockström, J., Scheffer, M., Schellnhuber, H. J., Steffen, W., & Lenton, T. M. (2022). Reply to Bhowmik et al.: Democratic climate action and studying extreme climate risks are not in tension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(45), e2216034119.

Liu, Y., Carlisle, E., Zhang, H., Yang, B., Steiner, M., Shao, T., Duan, B., Marone, F., Xiao, S., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2022). Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome. Nature, 609(7927), 541–546.

Data and Code

Gai, Z., Li, Q., Ferrón, H. G., Keating, J. N., Wang, J., Donoghue, P. C. J., & Zhu, M. (2022). Galeaspid anatomy and the origin of vertebrate paired appendages. Nature, 609(7929), 959–963.

Data: available in the Article, Extended Data Figs. 1–7 and Supplementary Data 1–5. The nomenclatural acts in this publication have been registered at ZooBank (LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank. org:pub: BD7A6929-33DE-4DDD-ADE2-51A67A489E1B).

Code availability: The R script used for the analyses is available as Supplementary Data 5.

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.

Godfrey-Smith, P., Scheel, D., Chancellor, S., Linquist, S., & Lawrence, M. (2022). In the line of fire: Debris throwing by wild octopuses. PLOS ONE, 17(11), e0276482.

Bowles, A. M. C., Williamson, C. J., Williams, T. A., Lenton, T. M., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2022). The origin and early evolution of plants. Trends in Plant Science, S1360138522002710.

Dong, X., Duan, B., Liu, J., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2022). Internal anatomy of a fossilized embryonic stage of the Cambrian-Ordovician scalidophoran Markuelia. Royal Society Open Science, 9(10), 220115.

Data: The underpinning tomographic data are available from the University of Bristol Research Data Storage Facility (data.bris)