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Agency and Directionality in Development
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Cellular agency in multicellular development and cancer
Physical aspects of early multicellular development
Intrinsic purposiveness and the shaping of development
Modeling Agency Formally
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The paradox of the organism
Universal principles of evolutionary adaptation
Natural selection for collective purpose
Emergent intrinsic motivations in intelligent collectives
Evolutionary Origins and Transitions of Agency
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Integration and individuation in the origin of agency
Transitions in individuality: from ecology to teleonomy
Features of autonomy in human evolution
(Re)Conceptualizing Function and Goal-Directedness
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Putting representations back into goal-directedness
Open-ended evolution and organizational closure
Mistakes in living systems: a new conceptual framework
‘Function’ in biology and bio-inspired design
Directionality in Genomics and Macroevolution
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Mutation rates, variational specificity, and genomic directionality
New tests of directionality in fossil lineages
The genetic basis of macroevolutionary trends
Higher-Level Agency and Directionality in Ecology and Earth Science
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Geofunctions: purposes and agents in global environmental sciences
Chance versus purpose in biosphere evolution
An organizational account of ecological functions
Agential Behavior and Plasticity in Evolution
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Exploratory mechanisms, agency, and evolution
Agency and explanation in the evolutionary sciences
Directedness in holobiont systems
Evolution and organismal goal-directedness
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Function and Teleology
