Publications

Causation in Development and Evolution

Pally, D., Goutham, S., & Bhat, R. (2022). Extracellular matrix as a driver for intratumoral heterogeneity. Physical Biology, 19(4), 043001.

Parke, E. C., & Plutynski, A. (2023). Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 97, 101–110.

Pavličev, M., & Wagner, G. P. (2022). The value of broad taxonomic comparisons in evolutionary medicine: Disease is not a trait but a state of a trait! MedComm, 3(4).

Pettersen, A. K., Nord, A., While, G. M., & Uller, T. (2023). How do fluctuating temperatures alter the cost of development? Functional Ecology, 1365-2435.14450.

Plutynski, A. (2022). On Explaining Peto’s Paradox. European Journal of Epidemiology.

Plutynski, A. (2022). Philosophical issues in cancer and public health. In A. Broadbent & S. Venkatapuram, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health (1st ed., pp. 393–406). Routledge.

Poliseli, L., Coutinho, J. G. E., Viana, B., Russo, F., & El-Hani, C. N. (2022). Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building. Biology & Philosophy, 37(4), 21.

Pollen, A. A., Kilik, U., Lowe, C. B., & Camp, J. G. (2023). Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics.

Pontarotti, G. (2022). L’hérédité Pétoeunrduunee ebniologie mbiolmécéudleaciirnee. 38.

Pontarotti, G., & Merlin, F. (2023). From Exposome to Pathogenic Niche. Looking for an Operational Account of the Environment in Health Studies. In É. Giroux, F. Merlin, & Y. Fayet (Eds.), Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research (pp. 173–206). Springer International Publishing.

Pontarotti, G., Dussault, A. C., & Merlin, F. (2022). Conceptualizing the Environment in Natural Sciences: Guest Editorial. Biological Theory, 17(1), 1–3.

Pontarotti, G., Mossio, M., & Pocheville, A. (2022). The genotype–phenotype distinction: from Mendelian genetics to 21st century biology. Genetica.

Reed, W. J., Ison, J. L., Waananen, A., Shaw, F. H., Wagenius, S., & Shaw, R. G. (2022). Genetic variation in reproductive timing in a long‐lived herbaceous perennial. American Journal of Botany, 109(11), 1861–1874.

Reydon, T. A. C. (2023). The proper role of history in evolutionary explanations. Noûs, 57(1), 162–187.

Richards, R.J. (2000). "Kant and Blumenbach on the Bildungstrieb: a historical misunderstanding." Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 31:11-32.

Richardson, L. K., Beck, J., Eck, D. J., Shaw, R., & Wagenius, S. (2023). Fire effects on plant reproductive fitness vary among individuals, reflecting pollination‐dependent mechanisms. American Journal of Botany, 110(4), e16160.

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

Sarkar S. GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2023;46:e227.

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.

Smith, D. J. B., & Masel, J. (2023). The Interaction Between Exploitative and Interference Competition: Limits to R * Theory [Preprint]. Ecology.

Smith, J.E.H., ed. (2006). The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Snell-Rood, E. C., & Kobiela, M. E. (2023). Rearing the Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris rapae) in Controlled Conditions: A Case Study with Heavy Metal Tolerance. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 198, 65383.

Sreepadmanabh, M., Ganesh, M., Bhat, R., & Bhattacharjee, T. (2023). Jammed microgel growth medium prepared by flash-solidification of agarose for 3D cell culture and 3D bioprinting [Preprint]. Bioengineering.

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

Takacs, P., & Bourrat, P. (2022). The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness. Biology & Philosophy, 37(2), 12.