Publications

McShea, D.W. and R.N. Brandon. (2010). Biology’s First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Biological Systems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Murphy, J. L., Puttick, M. N., O’Reilly, J. E., Pisani, D., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2021). Empirical distributions of homoplasy in morphological data. Palaeontology, 64(4), 505–518.

Nicholls, J. W. F., Chin, J. P., Williams, T. A., Lenton, T. M., O’Flaherty, V., & McGrath, J. W. (2023). On the potential roles of phosphorus in the early evolution of energy metabolism. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1239189.

Nikolic, M. C., Hopkins, M. J., & Evans, A. R. (2023). Shared patterns of segment size development in trilobites and vertebrates. Evolution, 77(6), 1479–1487.

Ocaña-Pallarès, E., Williams, T. A., López-Escardó, D., Arroyo, A. S., Pathmanathan, J. S., Bapteste, E., Tikhonenkov, D. V., Keeling, P. J., Szöllősi, G. J., & Ruiz-Trillo, I. (2022). Divergent genomic trajectories predate the origin of animals and fungi. Nature.

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.

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.

Rudwick, M.J.S. (1972). The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Paleontology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Rudwick, M.J.S. (2005). Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Rudwick, M.J.S. (2008). Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sabroux, R., Edgecombe, G. D., Pisani, D., & Garwood, R. J. (2023). New insights into the sea spider fauna (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) of La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône, France (Jurassic, Callovian). Papers in Palaeontology, 9(4), e1515.

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.

Sepkoski, D. (2012). Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sheridan, P. O., Meng, Y., Williams, T. A., & Gubry-Rangin, C. (2022). Recovery of Lutacidiplasmatales archaeal order genomes suggests convergent evolution in Thermoplasmatota. Nature Communications, 13(1), 4110.

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

Smith, T. J., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2022). Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Vargas‐Parra, E. E., & Hopkins, M. J. (2022). Modularity in the trilobite head consistent with the hypothesized segmental origin of the eyes. Evolution & Development, ede.12418.

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.

Wei, W., Chen, X., Ling, H.-F., Wu, F., Dong, L.-H., Pan, S., Jing, Z., & Huang, F. (2023). Vanadium isotope evidence for widespread marine oxygenation from the late Ediacaran to early Cambrian. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 602, 117942.

Williams, B. A. P., Williams, T. A., & Trew, J. (2022). Comparative Genomics of Microsporidia. In L. M. Weiss & A. W. Reinke (Eds.), Microsporidia (Vol. 114, pp. 43–69). Springer International Publishing.

Wu, R., Pisani, D., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2023). The unbearable uncertainty of panarthropod relationships. Biology Letters, 19(1), 20220497.

Yasuhara, M., Hunt, G., & Jordan, R. W. (2022). Macroecology, macroevolution, and paleoecology of Ostracoda. Marine Micropaleontology, 174, 102132.

Yuan, L., Zhou, Y., Chen, X., Zhu, M., Poulton, S. W., Tian, Z., Li, D., Thirlwall, M., & Shields, G. A. (2023). Multiple ocean oxygenation events during the Ediacaran Period: Mo isotope evidence from the Nanhua Basin, South China. Precambrian Research, 388, 107004.