Biological Theory

➡️New issue now out!⬅️ Our special issue on "D'Arcy Thompson's Conceptual Legacy" guest edited by Alan Love & Sahotra Sarkar is now out. See everything in the June issue here: link.springer.com/journal/13752/…

➡️New book review out⬅️ "Evolution at a Tipping Point" by Enrico Petracca A review of "Evolution Evolving" by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman & Scott Gilbert Free reading link: rdcu.be/eq9j0

➡️New article out⬅️ "The Coordination of Pathways in Metazoans: An Integrated Framework" by Shiping Tang Free reading link: rdcu.be/ejSKx @ShipingTang

New article on biological pathways in metazoans! This may fundamentally change how we understand life and health! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Heading to Oporto for #ishpssb2025 #ish2025 to present our paper coauthored with @lauramenatti “Homeostasis and Health: from balance to change” recently accepted for publication in @bioltheory

➡️New article out⬅️ "The Interface as a Privileged Level of Organization in Life Sciences: Implications for Control and Causation in Complex Systems" by Igor Branchi Free reading link: rdcu.be/evPD2 @IgorBranchi

➡️New article out⬅️ "Tracing Biosignatures as Universal Potential Biomarkers for the Origin of Life" by Nishtha Sah, Utkarsh Jain & Nidhi Chauhan Free reading link: rdcu.be/evD2k

➡️New book review out⬅️ "Systems Science and Scientific Metaphysics" by William Andrew Rottschaefer Reviewing "Elements and Relations: Aspects of a Scientific Metaphysics" by Martin Zwick Free reading link: rdcu.be/evkQ1

➡️New article out⬅️ "Too Much of a Good Thing? Positive Assortment and Social Dilemmas" by Justin Bruner Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

➡️New article out⬅️ "Organizational Accounts of Malfunction: The Dual-Order Approach and the Normative Field Alternative" by Xabier Barandiaran Open access: rdcu.be/eo46D

➡️New article out⬅️ "A Return to Niels Bohr’s 'Light and Life' (1932)" by Phillip Sloan Open access: rdcu.be/enIHS

➡️New article out⬅️ "Fundamental Principles of Cognitive Biology 2.0" by Pamela Lyon Open access: rdcu.be/eniPH For an upcoming special issue on "Ladislav Kováč and the Origins of Cognitive Biology" @JacksonSarto

➡️ New article out⬅️ "Rethinking the Classical Chemiosmotic Theory" by Sunil Nath Free reading link: rdcu.be/ejMCL Part of our "Critical Concepts in Biological Theory" collection: link.springer.com/collections/hd…

➡️New article out⬅️ "Mistakes in Action: On Clarifying the Phenomenon of Goal-Directedness" by Jonathan Hill, David S. Oderberg, Christopher Austin, François Cinotti, Ingo Bojak & Jonathan M. Gibbins Open access: rdcu.be/ejlhq

➡️Special issue intro now online⬅️ "D'Arcy Thompson's Conceptual Legacy" by guest editors Alan Love & Sahotra Sarkar For the upcoming thematic issue out in June Read the introduction here: rdcu.be/efY0v

➡️New article out⬅️ "Full Naturalism: The Objectivity of Subjective Points of View" by Fred Keijzer Open access: rdcu.be/efOoC For an upcoming special issue on "Ladislav Kováč and the Origins of Cognitive Biology" @JacksonSarto

➡️New issue now out!⬅️ See everything in the March issue here: link.springer.com/journal/13752/…

➡️New article out⬅️ "Plasticity-Led (Not First) Evolution: A Matter of Causal Relevance" by Luigi Garaffa Open access: rdcu.be/efa7q