Biology & Philosophy

Papers
(The TQCC of Biology & Philosophy is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Epistemic enhancement, pastism, and fossil anomalies in paleontology and ichnology37
Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart34
Pandemic and infodemic: the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective32
Biological functions and dysfunctions: a selected dispositions approach29
When can cultural selection explain adaptation?26
Natural artificiality, niche construction, and the content-open mediation of human behavior26
What basic emotions really are: modularity, motivation, and behavioral variability17
Molecular-biological machines: a defense17
On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat13
Exploration and perspectival modelling with model organisms: developmental biology as a case study12
The foundations of bet hedging11
Empirical adaptationism revisited: is it testable and is it worth testing?11
Justifying nature-based solutions10
The integrative approach to inferring homology: morphology and development combined10
An even better ape? Comments on a better ape10
What is the nature of stem cells? A unified dispositional framework10
Making sense of ‘genetic programs’: biomolecular Post–Newell production systems9
Putting races on the ontological map: a close look at Spencer’s ‘new biologism’ of race8
Not functional yet a difference maker: junk DNA as a case study7
An argument for global realism about the units of selection7
Proper functions: etiology without typehood7
Causes with material continuity7
Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms7
What is foraging?7
Populations, individuals, and biological race6
Niche construction and teleology: organisms as agents and contributors in ecology, development, and evolution6
A co-constitutive analysis of individuation: three case studies from the biological sciences6
Teaching and the origin of the normativity6
Logical fallacies persist in invasion biology and blaming the messengers will not improve accountability in this field: a response to Frank et al.6
All about levels: transposable elements as selfish DNAs and drivers of evolution6
Developing the structure of laws in biology6
Science and values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate6
Is co-management a double-edged sword in the protected areas of Sundarbans mangrove?5
Cultural evolution beyond the individual: what human collective knowledge adds to high fidelity copying5
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms5
What could cognition be, if not human cognition?: Individuating cognitive abilities in the light of evolution5
Unknotting reciprocal causation between organism and environment5
How to relate major transitions in life and cognition?5
What are ecological mechanisms? Suggestions for a fine-grained description of causal mechanisms in invasion ecology5
Neutral and niche theory in community ecology: a framework for comparing model realism5
A personal tribute to Frans De Waal (1948–2024), who inspired the philosophy of animal minds4
An enactive-developmental systems framing of cognizing systems4
Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building4
Teleosemantics and the free energy principle4
The problem of opportunity4
The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness4
Beyond reduction and emergence: a framework for tailoring multiscale modeling techniques to specific contexts4
Against the generalised theory of function4
The ‘niche’ in niche-based theorizing: much ado about nothing4
Positive Wild Animal Welfare4
Assessing measures of animal welfare4
Cleaning, sculpting or preparing? Scientific knowledge in Caitlin Wylie’s preparing dinosaurs4
The gradational nature of biological functions: lessons from genome biology4
Correction to: Cultural intelligence, shared intentionality and human cognitive uniquenes4
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