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Books

  1. D.W. McShea and Robert Brandon, Biology's First Law (2010), University of Chicago Press .
  2. McShea, DW; Brandon, RN, Biology's First Law The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems (July, 2010), pp. 184 pages, University of Chicago Press  [abs].
  3. Rosenberg, A; McShea, DW, Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction (January, 2007), pp. 1-241, Routledge. [doi]  [abs].
  4. Brandon, R; McShea, DW, The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory (March, 2020), pp. 75 pages, Cambridge University Press [doi]  [abs].

Papers Published

  1. Marcot, J.D. and D.W. McShea, (Abstract) Phylogenetic tests of directional bias in hierarchical evolution, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, vol. 36 (2004), pp. A-18 .
  2. D.W. McShea, (Abstract) The evolution of complexity without natural selection, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, vol. 36 (2004), pp. A-18 .
  3. Marino, L; Uhen, MD; McShea, D, (Abstract) Encephalization trends in cetacean evolution: New data and new analyses, Brain, Behavior, and Evolution (2003) .
  4. Novack Gottshall, PM; McShea, DW, (Abstract) Quantifying ecological disparity: comparative paleoecology of Ordovician and Recent marine assemblages, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, vol. 35 (2003) .
  5. McShea, DW, A complexity drain on cells in the evolution of multicellularity., Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, vol. 56 no. 3 (March, 2002), pp. 441-452 [11989676], [doi]  [abs].
  6. D.W. McShea, A hypothesis about hierarchies, in Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, edited by Y. Bar-Yam (2000) .
  7. McSHEA, DW, A metric for the study of evolutionary trends in the complexity of serial structures, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 45 no. 1 (January, 1992), pp. 39-55, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs].
  8. McShea, DW, A post‐modern vision of artificial life, Complexity, vol. 1 no. 5 (May, 1996), pp. 36-38, Wiley [doi] .
  9. McShea, DW; Wang, SC; Brandon, RN, A quantitative formulation of biology's first law., Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, vol. 73 no. 6 (June, 2019), pp. 1101-1115 [doi]  [abs].
  10. McShea, DW, A revised Darwinism, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 19 no. 1 (January, 2004), pp. 45-53, Springer Nature (Review of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, in press.) [doi] .
  11. McShea, DW, A universal generative tendency toward increased organismal complexity, in Variation: A Central Concept in Biology, edited by B. Hallgrimsson and B. Hall (December, 2005), pp. 435-453, Elsevier [doi]  [abs].
  12. Babcock, G; McShea, DW, An externalist teleology, Synthese, vol. 199 no. 3-4 (December, 2021), pp. 8755-8780 [doi]  [abs].
  13. De Castro, C; McShea, DW, Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution, Paleobiology, vol. 48 no. 4 (November, 2022), pp. 711-728 [doi]  [abs].
  14. Mcshea, DW, Arguments, tests, and the Burgess Shale � a commentary on the debate, Paleobiology, vol. 19 no. 4 (January, 1993), pp. 399-402, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  15. McShea, DW, Bernd Rosslenbroich: On the origin of autonomy: a new look at the major transitions in evolution, Biology & Philosophy, vol. 30 no. 3 (May, 2015), pp. 439-446, Springer Science and Business Media LLC [doi] .
  16. Rosenberg, A; McShea, DW, Biological laws and theories, in PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION (2008), pp. 32-64 .
  17. R.J. McShea and D.W. McShea, Biology and value theory, in Biology and the Foundation of Ethics, edited by J. Maienschein and M. Ruse (1999), Cambridge University Press .
  18. Rosenberg, A; McShea, DW, Biology, human behavior, social science, and moral philosophy, in PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION (2008), pp. 187-225 .
  19. Smith, FA; Payne, JL; Heim, NA; Balk, MA; Finnegan, S; Kowalewski, M; Lyons, SK; McClain, CR; McShea, DW; Novack-Gottshall, PM; Anich, PS; Wang, SC, Body Size Evolution Across the Geozoic, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol. 44 no. 1 (June, 2016), pp. 523-553, ANNUAL REVIEWS [doi]  [abs].
  20. McShea, DW, Comments on "evolutionary complexity, " H. Morowitz, complexity 3(6): pp 12-14., Complex., vol. 4 no. 2 (1998), pp. 11-12, WILEY [doi] .
  21. McShea, DW; Raup, DM, Completeness of the geological record., The Journal of geology, vol. 94 (January, 1986), pp. 569-574 [11542057], [doi]  [abs].
  22. McShea, DW, Complexity and evolution: What everybody knows, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 6 no. 3 (July, 1991), pp. 303-324, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs].
  23. McSHEA, DW, COMPLEXITY AND HOMOPLASY, in Homoplasy (1996), pp. 207-225, Elsevier [doi] .
  24. McShea, DW; Hordijk, W, Complexity by Subtraction, Evolutionary Biology (2013), pp. 1-17 .
  25. Rosenberg, A; McShea, DW, Complexity, directionality, and progress in evolution, in PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION (2008), pp. 127-156 .
  26. Rosenberg, A; McShea, DW, Darwin makes a science, in PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION (2008), pp. 12-31 .
  27. Ciampaglio, CN; Kemp, M; McShea, DW, Detecting changes in morphospace occupation patterns in the fossil record: Characterization and analysis of measures of disparity, Paleobiology, vol. 27 no. 4 (Fall, 2001), pp. 695-715, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs].
  28. Fleming, L; McShea, DW, Drosophila mutants suggest a strong drive toward complexity in evolution, Evolution and Development, vol. 15 no. 1 (2012), pp. 53-62 (Paper was written up in a Scientific American piece by Carl Zimmer. Attached.) [23331917], [doi]  [abs].
  29. D.W. McShea, Dynamics of large-scale trends, in Biodiversity Dynamics, edited by M.L. McKinney and J.A. Drake (1998) .
  30. McShea, DW, Evolution of Complexity, in Evolutionary Developmental Biology (2017), pp. 1-11, Springer International Publishing [doi] .
  31. McShea, DW, Evolution of Complexity, in Evolutionary Developmental Biology (2021), pp. 169-179, Springer International Publishing [doi] .
  32. MCSHEA, DW, EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IN THE MORPHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY OF THE MAMMALIAN VERTEBRAL COLUMN, EVOLUTION, vol. 47 no. 3 (1993), pp. 730-740, JSTOR [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs].
  33. McShea, DW, Evolutionary progress, in Evolution: The First Four Billion Years, edited by Ruse, M; Travis, J (2011), pp. 550-557, Harvard University Press .
  34. McShea, DW, Evolutionary Success: Standards of Value, in Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications (January, 2023), pp. 17-39 [doi] .
  35. Mcshea, DW, Evolutionary Trends, in Palaeobiology II, pp. 206-210, edited by DEG Briggs and PR Crowther (January, 2001), pp. 206-211, Wiley [doi] .
  36. McShea, DW, Evolutionary Trends, in Palaeobiology II (December, 2007), pp. 206-211 [doi] .
  37. McShea, DW, Evolutionary trends and goal directedness., Synthese, vol. 201 no. 5 (January, 2023), pp. 178 [doi]  [abs].
  38. McShea, DW, Evolutionary Trends and the Salience Bias (with Apologies to Oil Tankers, Karl Marx, and Others), Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 3 no. 1 (January, 1994), pp. 21-38, Informa UK Limited [doi]  [abs].
  39. D.W. McShea, Feelings as the proximate cause of behavior, in Where Psychology Meets Biology: Philosophical Essays, edited by V.G. Hardcastle (1999), Cambridge University Press .
  40. McShea, DW, Four reasons for scepticism about a human major transition in social individuality., Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 378 no. 1872 (March, 2023), pp. 20210403 [doi]  [abs].
  41. Brandon, RN; McShea, DW, Four solutions for four puzzles, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 27 no. 5 (September, 2012), pp. 737-744, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs].
  42. McShea, DW, Freedom and purpose in biology., Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences, vol. 58 (August, 2016), pp. 64-72 [doi]  [abs].
  43. McShea, DW, Functional complexity in organisms: Parts as proxies, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 15 no. 5 (December, 2000), pp. 641-668, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs].
  44. Rosenberg, A; McShea, DW, Further problems of Darwinism Constraint, drift, function, in PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION (2008), pp. 65-95 .
  45. Rosenberg, A; McShea, DW, Genes, groups, teleosemantics, and the major transitions, in PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION (2008), pp. 157-186 .
  46. McShea, DW, Gene‐talk talk about sociobiology, Social Epistemology, vol. 6 no. 2 (April, 1992), pp. 183-192, Informa UK Limited [doi] .
  47. Babcock, G; McShea, DW, Goal Directedness and the Field Concept, Philosophy of Science (October, 2023), pp. 1-10, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs].
  48. Heim, NA; Payne, JL; Finnegan, S; Knope, ML; Kowalewski, M; Lyons, SK; McShea, DW; Novack-Gottshall, PM; Smith, FA; Wang, SC, Hierarchical complexity and the size limits of life., Proceedings. Biological sciences, vol. 284 no. 1857 (June, 2017), pp. 20171039 [doi]  [abs].
  49. McShea, DW; Venit, EP; Simon, VB, Hierarchical complexity of organisms: dynamics of a well-known trend, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, vol. 31 (1999), pp. A-171 (Abstract only.) .
  50. Golob, RS; McShea, DW, IMPLICATIONS OF THE IXTOC 1 BLOW-OUT AND OIL SPILL. (December, 1981), pp. 743-759 .
  51. Marcot, JD; McShea, DW, Increasing hierarchical complexity throughout the history of life: Phylogenetic tests of trend mechanisms, Paleobiology, vol. 33 no. 2 (March, 2007), pp. 182-200, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs] [author's comments].
  52. Anderson, C; McShea, DW, Individual versus social complexity, with particular reference to ant colonies., Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 76 no. 2 (May, 2001), pp. 211-237 [11396847], [doi]  [abs].
  53. Anderson, C; McShea, DW, Intermediate-level parts in insect societies: Adaptive structures that ants build away from the nest, Insectes Sociaux, vol. 48 no. 4 (January, 2001), pp. 291-301, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs].
  54. McShea, DW, Logic, passion and the problem of convergence., Interface focus, vol. 7 no. 3 (June, 2017), pp. 20160122 [doi]  [abs].
  55. McShea, DW, Machine wanting., Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences, vol. 44 no. 4 Pt B (December, 2013), pp. 679-687 [23792091], [doi]  [abs].
  56. McShea, DW, MECHANISMS OF LARGE-SCALE EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS, Evolution, vol. 48 no. 6 (December, 1994), pp. 1747-1763, Wiley [doi]  [abs].
  57. Lee, JG; McShea, D, Operationalizing goal directedness: An empirical route to advancing a philosophical discussion, Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, vol. 12 no. 5 (June, 2020), University of Michigan Library [doi] .
  58. Marino, L; McShea, DW; Uhen, MD, Origin and evolution of large brains in toothed whales., The anatomical record. Part A, Discoveries in molecular, cellular, and evolutionary biology, vol. 281 no. 2 (December, 2004), pp. 1247-1255 [15497142], [doi]  [abs].
  59. D.W. McShea, Parts and integration: consequences of hierarchy, in Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record, pp. 27-60, edited by JBC Jackson, S Lidgard, and FK McKinney (2001), Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press .
  60. McShea, DW, Perspective: Metazoan Complexity and Evolution: Is There a Trend?, Evolution, vol. 50 no. 2 (April, 1996), pp. 477-477, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs].
  61. Liow, LH; Simpson, C; Bouchard, F; Damuth, J; Hallgrimsson, B; Hunt, G; McShea, DW; Powell, JR; Stenseth, NC; Stoller, MK; Wagner, G, Pioneering paradigms and magnificent manifestos--Leigh Van Valen's priceless contributions to evolutionary biology., Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, vol. 65 no. 4 (April, 2011), pp. 917-922 [21463292], [doi] .
  62. McShea, DW, Possible largest-scale trends in organismal evolution: Eight 'live hypotheses', Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, vol. 29 no. 1 (December, 1998), pp. 293-318, ANNUAL REVIEWS [doi]  [abs].
  63. Rosenberg, A; McShea, DW, Reductionism about biology, in PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION (2008), pp. 96-126 .
  64. Babcock, G; McShea, DW, Resolving teleology's false dilemma, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 139 no. 4 (August, 2023), pp. 415-432, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs].
  65. McShea, DW, Sense and Depth, Biology & Philosophy, vol. 15 no. 5 (November, 2000), pp. 751-758, Springer Science and Business Media LLC [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  66. Keenan, JP; McShea, DW, Synergies Among Behaviors Drive the Discovery of Productive Interactions, Biological Theory, vol. 18 no. 1 (March, 2023), pp. 43-62 [doi]  [abs].
  67. McShea, DW; Venit, EP, Testing for bias in the evolution of coloniality: A demonstration in cyclostome bryozoans, Paleobiology, vol. 28 no. 3 (Summer, 2002), pp. 308-327, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs].
  68. Anderson, C; Franks, NR; McShea, DW, The complexity and hierarchical structure of tasks in insect societies, Animal Behaviour, vol. 62 no. 4 (January, 2001), pp. 643-651, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs].
  69. McShea, DW, The evolution of complexity without natural selection, a possible large-scale trend of the fourth kind, Paleobiology, vol. 31 no. 2 SUPPL. (July, 2005), pp. 146-156, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs].
  70. Payne, JL; McClain, CR; Boyer, AG; Brown, JH; Finnegan, S; Kowalewski, M; Krause, RA; Lyons, SK; McShea, DW; Novack-Gottshall, PM; Smith, FA; Spaeth, P; Stempien, JA; Wang, SC, The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective., Photosynthesis research, vol. 107 no. 1 (January, 2011), pp. 37-57 (Published online 7 Sept 2010, DOI 10.1007/s11120-010-9593-1.) [20821265], [doi]  [abs].
  71. Kowalewski, M; Payne, JL; Smith, FA; Wang, SC; McShea, DW; Xiao, S; Novack-Gottshall, PM; McClain, CR; Krause, RA; Boyer, AG; Finnegan, S; Lyons, SK; Stempien, JA; Alroy, J; Spaeth, PA, The geozoic supereon, Palaios, vol. 26 no. 5 (May, 2011), pp. 251-255, Society for Sedimentary Geology [doi] .
  72. McShea, DW, The hierarchical structure of organisms: A scale and documentation of a trend in the maximum, Paleobiology, vol. 27 no. 2 (January, 2001), pp. 405-423, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs].
  73. McShea, DW, The minor transitions in hierarchical evolution and the question of a directional bias, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 14 no. 3 (July, 2001), pp. 502-518, WILEY [doi]  [abs].
  74. McShea, DW; Simpson, CG, The miscellaneous transitions in evolution, in The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited, edited by Calcott, B; Sterelny, K (2011), pp. 19-34, MIT Press [doi] .
  75. Brandon, RN; McShea, DW, The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory, in MISSING TWO-THIRDS OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY (2020), pp. 1-+ [doi] .
  76. D.W. McShea and C. Anderson, The remodularization of the organism, in Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems, edited by W. Callebaut and D. Rasskin-Gutman (2005), pp. 185-206, The MIT Press .
  77. McShea, DW, Three provocative patterns in hierarchical evolution., AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST, vol. 41 no. 6 (December, 2001), pp. 1522-1522, SOC INTEGRATIVE COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY [Gateway.cgi] .
  78. McShea, DW; Changizi, MA, Three puzzles in hierarchical evolution., Integrative and comparative biology, vol. 43 no. 1 (February, 2003), pp. 74-81 [21680411], [doi]  [abs].
  79. McShea, DW, Three Trends in the History of Life: An Evolutionary Syndrome, Evolutionary Biology, vol. 43 no. 4 (December, 2016), pp. 531-542, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs].
  80. McShea, DW, Trends, tools, and terminology, PALEOBIOLOGY, vol. 26 no. 3 (2000), pp. 330-333, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  81. Payne, JL; Boyer, AG; Brown, JH; Finnegan, S; Kowalewski, M; Krause, RA; Lyons, SK; McClain, CR; McShea, DW; Novack-Gottshall, PM; Smith, FA; Stempien, JA; Wang, SC, Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 106 no. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 24-27 [19106296], [doi]  [abs].
  82. McShea, DW, Unnecessary Complexity Complexity and the Arrow of Time Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies, and Michael Ruse, Eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013. 369 pp. $30, £21.99. ISBN 9781107027251., Science, vol. 342 no. 6164 (December, 2013), pp. 1319-1320, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs].
  83. Mcshea, DW, Unpredictability! and the Function of Mind in Nature, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 4 no. 4 (January, 1996), pp. 466-470, SAGE Publications [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  84. McShea, DW, Untangling the morass, American Scientist, vol. 99 no. 2 (January, 2011), pp. 154-156, Sigma Xi [doi]  [abs].
  85. McShea, DW, Upper-directed systems: A new approach to teleology in biology, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 27 no. 5 (September, 2012), pp. 663-684, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs].
  86. McShea, DW; Venit, EP, What is a Part?, in The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology, edited by G.P. Wagner (2001), pp. 259-284, Elsevier [doi] .
  87. Rosenberg, A; McShea, DW, What is the philosophy of biology? Introduction, in PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION (2008), pp. 1-+ .

Book Reviews

  1. D.W. McShea, (Review of The Tangled Web, by Carl Zimmer), Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 86 (2011), pp. 47 .
  2. D.W. McShea, Adaptive glory, American Scientist, vol. 91 (November, 2003), pp. 567-569 (Review of Darwin and Design by Michael Ruse.) .

Book Chapter

  1. D.W. McShea, Freedom and purpose in biology, in Contingency and Order in History and the Sciences (working title), edited by Peter Harrison (In press) .

Published Abstracts

  1. Finnegan, Seth, Steve C. Wang, John Alroy, Alison G. Boyer, Matthew E. Clapham, Zoe V. Finkel, Matthew A. Kosnik, Michał Kowalewski, Richard A. Krause, Jr., S. Kathleen Lyons, Craig R. McClain, Daniel W. McShea, Philip M. Novack- Gottshall, Rowan Lockwood, Jonathan L. Payne, Felisa A. Smith, Paula A. Spaeth, and Jennifer A. Stempien, No consistent relationship between body size and extinction risk in the marine fossil record, GSA Abstracts (2009) .