Publications

Publications

Below is a list of publications (for the past 5 years) authored by Theory and Method in Biosciences staff and students (current at the time of publication). Not all listed publications relate to research conducted within the team. Publications by former members are also included where the research was conducted wholly or largely within the team.

Forthcoming

Charbonneau, M., & Bourrat, P. (in press). Fidelity and the grain problem in cultural evolution. Synthese. Download
Griffiths, P. E. (n.d.). What are biological sexes?
Bourrat, P. (in press). Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties.

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2024

Constant, A. (2024). Personomics: Precision Psychiatry Done Right. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 729750. https://doi.org/10.1086/729750 Download
Griffiths, P. E., & Spencer, H. G. (2024). To explain sex, look to evolution. Nature, 631(8020), 275–275. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02248-1 Download
Brusse, C., & Sterelny, K. (Eds.). (2024). Religion and its Evolution: Signals, Norms and Secret Histories. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032628042
Lehtonen, J., & Parker, G. A. (2024). The correlation between anisogamy and sexual selection intensity—the broad theoretical predictions. Evolution Letters, qrae029. https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae029
Fang, W. (2024). Design principles as minimal models. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 105, 50–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.03.003
Fang, W., & Zhang, J. (2024). Proportionality, Determinate Intervention Effects, and High-Level Causation. Erkenntnis.
Rider, C. (2024). Closure of Constraints as a Theoretical Model. Philosophy of Science, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2024.63 Download

2023

Sholl, J., & Raubenheimer, D. (2023). Who's afraid of nutritionism? The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 728785. https://doi.org/10.1086/728785 Download
Brusse, C. (2023). Adaptive signaling in a lineage explanation, needs to be adaptive. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 0(0), 1–3.
Serpico, D., Lynch, K. E., & Porter, T. M. (2023). New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 97, 29–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.11.009 Download
van Dooren, T., Price, C. J., Banks, P. B., Berger-Tal, O., Chrulew, M., Johnson, J., Lajeunesse, G., Lynch, K. E., McArthur, C., Parker, F. C. G., Oakey, M., Pitcher, B. J., St. Clair, C. C., Ward-Fear, G., Widin, S., Wong, B. B. M., & Blumstein, D. T. (2023). The ethics of intervening in animal behaviour for conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.011 Download
Dooren, T. van, Price, C. J., Banks, P. B., Berger-Tal, O., Chrulew, M., Johnson, J., Lajeunesse, G., Lynch, K. E., McArthur, C., Parker, F. C. G., Oakey, M., Pitcher, B. J., Clair, C. C. S., Ward-Fear, G., Widin, S., Wong, B. B. M., & Blumstein, D. T. (2023). The ethics of intervening in animal behaviour for conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38(9), 822–830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.011
Nacko, S., Hall, M. A., Gloag, R., Lynch, K. E., Spooner-Hart, R. N., Cook, J. M., & Riegler, M. (2023). Heat stress survival and thermal tolerance of Australian stingless bees. Journal of Thermal Biology, 117, 103671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2023.103671
Serpico, D., Lynch, K. E., & Porter, T. M. (2023). New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 97, 29–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.11.009
Lynch, K. E., Brown, R. L., Strasser, J., & Yeo, S. L. (2023). A disanalogy with RCTs and its implications for second-generation causal knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e194. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002242
Bourrat, P. (2023). Multilevel selection 1, multilevel selection 2, and the Price equation: a reappraisal. Synthese, 202(3), 72.
Bourrat, P. (2023). A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes. Biology & Philosophy, 38(4), 33.
Griffiths, P. E., & Bourrat, P. (2023). Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 11(1), 277–286. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad023
Griffiths, P. E., & Bourrat, P. (2023). Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. Download
Rider, C. (2023, August 19). Closure of constraints as a theoretical model. Sydney Philosophy of Psychology Conference 2023, Pearl Beach. Download
Artificial wombs and animal sex — philosophers weigh in on brave new futures. (2023, September 20). [Broadcast]. In Big Ideas. ABC Radio National.
Lean, C., & Jones, C. (2023). The Evolution of Multispecies Populations: A Multilevel Perspective. Biology and Philosophy, 38(40).
Alimardani, A., McCay, A., & Lean, C. (2023). Big Data, Behavioral Genetics and Risk of Future Offending. Law, Technology and Humans.
Lane, A. S., Lynch, K. E., Arnold, M., Dar-Nimrod, I., Morandini, J., Gawronski, S. A., & Griffiths, P. E. (2023). The undue influence of genetic information on senior medical students' treatment decisions. BMC Medical Education, 23(1), 938. Download
Griffiths, P. E., & Bourrat, P. (2023). Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 11(1), 277–286. Download
Christie, J. R., Wilkinson, Z., Gawronski, S. A., & Griffiths, P. E. (2023). Concepts of function in biology and biomedicine. In K. Hens & A. Deblock, Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 31–50). Bloomsbury Academic.

2022

Bourrat, P., & Charbonneau, M. (2022). Grains of description in biological and cultural transmission. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Lu, Q., & Bourrat, P. (2022). On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 94, 87–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.05.005
Kemp, D., Lynch, K., Jean, S. S., Kemp, D., Lynch, K., & Jean, S. S. (2022). Variation in boldness behaviour across individuals, sexes, and strains of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Marine and Freshwater Research.
Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2022). Has the Socio-Political Role of Neuroethics Been Neglected? AJOB Neuroscience, 13(1), 23–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2021.2001079
Browning, H., & Veit, W. (2022). On the Relevance of Experimental Philosophy to Neuroethics. AJOB Neuroscience, 13(1), 55–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2021.2001080
Brusse, C. (2022). From the inside looking out. Metascience.
Brusse, C., Handfield, T., & Zollman, K. J. S. (2022). Explaining costly religious practices: credibility enhancing displays and signaling theories. Synthese, 200(3), 249.
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-022-09843-4
Bourrat, P. (2022). Unifying Heritability in Evolutionary Theory. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 91, 201–210.
Griffiths, P. E. (2022). What are biological sexes? Download
Christie, J. R., Brusse, C., Bourrat, P., Takacs, P., & Griffiths, P. E. (2022). Are Biological Traits Explained by Their 'Selected Effect' Functions? Australasian Philosophical Review, 6(4), 335–359. Download
Christie, J. R., Brusse, C., Bourrat, P., Takacs, P., & Griffiths, P. E. (2022). Let's Get to Work: A Response to Our Commentators. Australasian Philosophical Review, 6(4), 429–439. Download
Fang, W. (2022). Design principles and mechanistic explanation. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 44(4), 55.
Christie, J. R., Brusse, C., Bourrat, P., Takacs, P., & Griffiths, P. E. (2022). Target Article: Do Proper Functions Explain the Existence of Traits? Australasian Philosophical Review, 6(4), 335–339. https://doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2024.2370630 Download