Pub Date : 2023-01-26DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00427-9
A. Spiridonov, S. Lovejoy
{"title":"Scaling in the Evolution of Biodiversity","authors":"A. Spiridonov, S. Lovejoy","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00427-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00427-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90016855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-25DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00423-z
C. Shipton
{"title":"Miniaturization and Abstraction in the Later Stone Age","authors":"C. Shipton","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00423-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00423-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91381652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00426-w
Matthew Sims
{"title":"Many Paths to Anticipatory Behavior: Anticipatory Model Acquisition Across Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Timescales","authors":"Matthew Sims","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00426-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00426-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75593091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00413-1
Robert N Spengler, Frank Kienast, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, David R Begun, Kseniia Ashastina, Michael Petraglia
Extinct megafaunal mammals in the Americas are often linked to seed-dispersal mutualisms with large-fruiting tree species, but large-fruiting species in Europe and Asia have received far less attention. Several species of arboreal Maloideae (apples and pears) and Prunoideae (plums and peaches) evolved large fruits starting around nine million years ago, primarily in Eurasia. As evolutionary adaptations for seed dispersal by animals, the size, high sugar content, and bright colorful visual displays of ripeness suggest that mutualism with megafaunal mammals facilitated the evolutionary change. There has been little discussion as to which animals were likely candidate(s) on the late Miocene landscape of Eurasia. We argue that several possible dispersers could have consumed the large fruits, with endozoochoric dispersal usually relying on guilds of species. During the Pleistocene and Holocene, the dispersal guild likely included ursids, equids, and elephantids. During the late Miocene, large primates were likely also among the members of this guild, and the potential of a long-held mutualism between the ape and apple clades merits further discussion. If primates were a driving factor in the evolution of this large-fruit seed-dispersal system, it would represent an example of seed-dispersal-based mutualism with hominids millions of years prior to crop domestication or the development of cultural practices, such as farming.
{"title":"Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution.","authors":"Robert N Spengler, Frank Kienast, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, David R Begun, Kseniia Ashastina, Michael Petraglia","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00413-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00413-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Extinct megafaunal mammals in the Americas are often linked to seed-dispersal mutualisms with large-fruiting tree species, but large-fruiting species in Europe and Asia have received far less attention. Several species of arboreal Maloideae (apples and pears) and Prunoideae (plums and peaches) evolved large fruits starting around nine million years ago, primarily in Eurasia. As evolutionary adaptations for seed dispersal by animals, the size, high sugar content, and bright colorful visual displays of ripeness suggest that mutualism with megafaunal mammals facilitated the evolutionary change. There has been little discussion as to which animals were likely candidate(s) on the late Miocene landscape of Eurasia. We argue that several possible dispersers could have consumed the large fruits, with endozoochoric dispersal usually relying on guilds of species. During the Pleistocene and Holocene, the dispersal guild likely included ursids, equids, and elephantids. During the late Miocene, large primates were likely also among the members of this guild, and the potential of a long-held mutualism between the ape and apple clades merits further discussion. If primates were a driving factor in the evolution of this large-fruit seed-dispersal system, it would represent an example of seed-dispersal-based mutualism with hominids millions of years prior to crop domestication or the development of cultural practices, such as farming.</p>","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10191964/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9505547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00424-y
Max Dresow, Alan C Love
The concept of teleonomy has been attracting renewed attention recently. This is based on the idea that teleonomy provides a useful conceptual replacement for teleology, and even that it constitutes an indispensable resource for thinking biologically about purposes. However, both these claims are open to question. We review the history of teleological thinking from Greek antiquity to the modern period to illuminate the tensions and ambiguities that emerged when forms of teleological reasoning interacted with major developments in biological thought. This sets the stage for an examination of Pittendrigh's (Adaptation, natural selection, and behavior. In: Roe A, Simpson GG (eds) Behavior and evolution. Yale University Press, New Haven, pp 390-416, 1958) introduction of "teleonomy" and its early uptake in the work of prominent biologists. We then explore why teleonomy subsequently foundered and consider whether the term may yet have significance for discussions of goal-directedness in evolutionary biology and philosophy of science. This involves clarifying the relationship between teleonomy and teleological explanation, as well as asking how the concept of teleonomy impinges on research at the frontiers of evolutionary theory.
teleonomy的概念最近再次引起了人们的关注。这是基于这样一种观点，即目的论为目的论提供了一种有用的概念替代，甚至它构成了从生物学角度思考目的的不可或缺的资源。然而，这两种说法都值得商榷。我们回顾了从古希腊到现代的目的论思想的历史，以阐明当目的论推理的形式与生物学思想的主要发展相互作用时出现的紧张和模棱两可。这为皮滕赖特的“适应、自然选择和行为”理论的检验奠定了基础。参见:Roe A, Simpson GG(编)行为与进化。耶鲁大学出版社，纽黑文，第390-416页，1958年)介绍了“遥感学”，并将其早期应用于杰出生物学家的工作中。然后，我们探讨了为什么目的论随后失败，并考虑这个术语是否可能对进化生物学和科学哲学中目标导向的讨论有意义。这包括澄清目的论和目的论解释之间的关系，以及探讨目的论的概念如何影响进化论前沿的研究。
{"title":"Teleonomy: Revisiting a Proposed Conceptual Replacement for Teleology.","authors":"Max Dresow, Alan C Love","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00424-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00424-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The concept of teleonomy has been attracting renewed attention recently. This is based on the idea that teleonomy provides a useful conceptual replacement for teleology, and even that it constitutes an indispensable resource for thinking biologically about purposes. However, both these claims are open to question. We review the history of teleological thinking from Greek antiquity to the modern period to illuminate the tensions and ambiguities that emerged when forms of teleological reasoning interacted with major developments in biological thought. This sets the stage for an examination of Pittendrigh's (Adaptation, natural selection, and behavior. In: Roe A, Simpson GG (eds) Behavior and evolution. Yale University Press, New Haven, pp 390-416, 1958) introduction of \"teleonomy\" and its early uptake in the work of prominent biologists. We then explore why teleonomy subsequently foundered and consider whether the term may yet have significance for discussions of goal-directedness in evolutionary biology and philosophy of science. This involves clarifying the relationship between teleonomy and teleological explanation, as well as asking how the concept of teleonomy impinges on research at the frontiers of evolutionary theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10191995/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9505550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00425-x
Harry Smit
{"title":"An Overarching Framework for Understanding and Explaining Human Nature","authors":"Harry Smit","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00425-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00425-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72847544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00422-0
Alejandro Gordillo-García
{"title":"Cultural Evolution and the Evolution of Cultural Information","authors":"Alejandro Gordillo-García","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00422-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00422-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79876318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00418-w
T. P. Brady
{"title":"A Selected Look at Niche Construction Theory Including Its Incorporation of the Notion of Phenotype-Mediated Developmental Plasticity","authors":"T. P. Brady","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00418-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00418-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89150804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00420-2
Jake P. Keenan, D. McShea
{"title":"Synergies Among Behaviors Drive the Discovery of Productive Interactions","authors":"Jake P. Keenan, D. McShea","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00420-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00420-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89739151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00419-9
Ehud Lamm, S. J. Veigl
{"title":"Back to Chromatin: ENCODE and the Dynamic Epigenome","authors":"Ehud Lamm, S. J. Veigl","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00419-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00419-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73292507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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