Publications

Unsubmitted Manuscripts 

Phylogenetic Thinking as a Theoretical Perspective

Published Articles & Chapters

“Clade Selection and Levels of Lineage: A Reply to Rieppel." (Invited - forthcoming) Biological Theory.  Co-author Andrew Hamilton

 

“Moral Confusion and Developmental Essentialism in part-human hybrid (2008)  American Journal of Bioethics. 8(12): 42-44.  Co-author Bryan Benham. 

"Phylogenetic Inference" (Nov. 2008) in A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Blackwell Publishing 231-242.

"Social Insects and the Individuality Thesis" (2008) in Organization of Social Insects: From Genome to Sociocomplexity, Harvard University Press 570-587. Co-author Andrew Hamilton, Nate Smith.

"Philosophy of Biology" (2009) in Philosophy of the Special Sciences, SUNY Press. Co-Author: Andrew Hamilton, Jay Odenbaugh, Samir Okasha.

 

"Clades Are Reproducers" (2006) Biological Theory 1(4):381-391. Co-Author Andrew Hamilton.

"Coherence, Consistency and Cohesion" (2005) Philosophy of Science 72(5):1026-1040.  Co-Author Andrew Hamilton.

"Probability and Systematics" (2005) Systematic Biology 54:831-841.

"Critical Notice: Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution." (2005) Biology and Philosophy 20:517-544. Co-Author Jim Griesemer, Grant Yamashita, Lisa Gannett.

"Morphology, Ultrastructure, and Function of Extrafloral Nectaries in Threes Species of Caesalpiniacae" (1999) Jour. Iowa Acad. Sci. 106(4):82-88. Co-Author Lenore Durkee, Lisa Dorn, Ann Remington.

Book Reviews

Review: Samir Okasha: Evolution and the Levels of Selection. Mind  (2008); 117: 1116-1119

"Not So Innocent: Methodology and Metaphysics of Evolution" Doubting Darwin (Sahotra Sarkar) BioScience (in press)

The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy (Marc Ereshefsky) in Philosophy of Science (2005)

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