Publications

Directionality in Development and Evolution

Provine, W. (1989). “Progress in evolution and meaning in life.” In Evolutionary Progress. Edited by M.H. Nitecki. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 49–74.

Rosslenbroich, B. (2023). Evolutionary changes in the capacity for organismic autonomy. The Journal of Physiology, JP284414.

Rosslenbroich, B. (2023). Properties of Life: Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology. The MIT Press.

Roy, R., Moreno, N., Brockman, S. A., Kostanecki, A., Zambre, A., Holl, C., Solhaug, E. M., Minami, A., Snell-Rood, E. C., Hampton, M., Bee, M. A., Chiari, Y., Hegeman, A. D., & Carter, C. J. (2022). Convergent evolution of a blood-red nectar pigment in vertebrate-pollinated flowers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(5), e2114420119.

Scott-Phillips, T.C., K.N. Laland, D.M. Shuker, T.E. Dickins and S.A. West. (2014). "The niche construction perspective: a critical appraisal." Evolution 68(5):1231–1243.

Sepkoski Jr., J.J., Bambach, R.K., Raup, D.M. and Valentine, J.W. (1981). “Phanerozoic marine diversity and the fossil record.” Nature 291:435–437.

Simpson, G.G. (1944). Tempo and Mode in Evolution. New York: Columbia University Press.

Snell‐Rood, E. C., & Ehlman, S. M. (2023). Developing the genotype‐to‐phenotype relationship in evolutionary theory: A primer of developmental features. Evolution & Development, ede.12434.

Sterelny, K. and Calcott, B. (2011). The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.

Sultan, S.E. (2015). Organism and Environment: Ecological Development, Niche Construction, and Adaptation. New York: Oxford University Press.

Szathmary, E. (2015). “Toward major transitions theory 2.0.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America 112:10104–10111.

Travassos-Britto, B., Pardini, R., El-Hani, C. N., & Prado, P. I. (2021). A pragmatic approach for producing theoretical syntheses in ecology. PLoS ONE, 16(12 December).

Vanadzina, K., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Laland, K. N., & Sheard, C. (2022). Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 1365-2656.13815.

Vole, K.L., H.H. Øistein, L.H. Liow, and N.C. Stenseth (2015). “The role of biotic forces in driving macroevolution: beyond the Red Queen.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Part B: Biological Sciences 282:20150186. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0186.

Zenil-Ferguson, R., McEntee, J. P., Burleigh, J. G., & Duckworth, R. A. (2023). Linking Ecological Specialization to Its Macroevolutionary Consequences: An Example with Passerine Nest Type. Systematic Biology, 72(2), 294–306.