➡️ New article out! ⬅️ A Mark of the Noncognitive by M. Chirimuuta Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Ecoduality by Robert E. Ulanowicz Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ecoduality - Biological Theory

Dualism has been a viable concept in physics since the 1920s, when Arthur Compton demonstrated the corpuscular nature of photons as distinct from their wave nature. More recently, information theory a...

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➡️ New article out! ⬅️ What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life by Reed Bender, Karina Kofman, Blaise Agüera y Arcas & Michael Levin (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social) Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life - Biological Theory

The question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...

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📣🌟The June issue of Biological Theory, a thematic collection on “Continually Discovering Complexity: Essays in Honor of William Bechtel”, is out now! link.springer.com/journal/1375... Read the editors’ summary, with free reading links for all the articles here: www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Integrative Neurobiology and Cultural Context Theory: The Role of Cultural Neurobiological Inheritance Systems by Daniel O. Larson, Isabella Sarto-Jackson & Barbara Fischer Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Integrative Neurobiology and Cultural Context Theory: The Role of Cultural Neurobiological Inheritance Systems - Biological Theory

In this reflection article, we present a new theoretical perspective, which we term integrative neurobiology and cultural context (INCC) theory. Traditionally, social scientists have viewed the human ...

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➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Formalization Does Not Entail Neutrality: Evolutionary Game Theory and the Sociobiology Controversy by Zvi Hasnes-Beninson (@zvihb.bsky.social) Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Agency as the Defining Activity of Life: A Viability-Oriented Framework Integrating Process and Scale by Roger D. Spencer Free reading link: rdcu.be/fkZe3

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ The Common Status of Biological Objects by Marc-Antoine Leveau Free reading link: rdcu.be/fkY86

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ The Evolution of Functional Endogenous Retroviruses by Ruben N. Jorritsma Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ The Pragmatic Approach to Explanation Revamped and Remotivated by Arnon Levy Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Tumorigenesis as a Trauma Response: The Fragmentation of Morphogenetic Memory Drives Neoplastic Dissociation by Jordan Strasser Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Tumorigenesis as a Trauma Response: The Fragmentation of Morphogenetic Memory Drives Neoplastic Dissociation - Biological Theory

Biological Theory - The persistence of living systems depends on their capacity to sense, distribute, and resolve stress. Across evolution, this pressure shaped increasingly integrated...

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➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Continually Discovering Complexity: Introduction to the Special Issue by William Bechtel & Daniel C. Burnston Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Multiple Realizability: Still Something After All These Years by Jennifer Mundale Free reading link: rdcu.be/fezBU

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Norms, Cooperation, and Uncertainty by Kim Sterelny & Carl Brusse Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ There Is No Measurement Error in Biology by Philipp Mitteroecker Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣🌟The March issue of Biological Theory is out! link.springer.com/journal/1375... Read the editors’ summary of the latest issue, with free reading links for all the articles here: www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Biological Complexity and Cognitive Evolution by Peter Jedlicka, Jaroslav Varchola & Jakub Betinsky Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ From the Elephant to Butyric Acid Bacterium—It Is [Not] All the Same! How the Genetic Code Is Not Universal by Janella Baxter Free reading link: rdcu.be/e9HXR

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ The Force of Experience: A Biophysical Hypothesis of a Confined Interaction in Living Neural Systems by Fredric Schiffer Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Force of Experience: A Biophysical Hypothesis of a Confined Interaction in Living Neural Systems - Biological Theory

Standard physicalism often renders subjective experience epiphenomenal, while interactionist accounts struggle to reconcile mental causation with energy conservation. We propose the force of experienc...

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➡️ New Classics in Biological Theory article out! ⬅️ Revisiting Rosenblueth, Wiener, and Bigelow’s “Behavior, Purpose and Teleology” (1943) by Auguste Nahas (@augustenahas.bsky.social) Open access, also to Rosenblueth et al. (1943) (supplementary material) on: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Revisiting Rosenblueth, Wiener, and Bigelow’s “Behavior, Purpose and Teleology” (1943) - Biological Theory

Biological Theory - This article examines Rosenblueth, Wiener, and Bigelow’s 1943 article “Behavior, Purpose and Teleology”, which is widely remembered both as the foundational...

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➡️ New two-part article out! ⬅️ Mind Everywhere: A Framework for Conceptualizing Goal-Directedness in Biology and Other Domains (Part One & Part Two) by Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin.bsky.social) & David B. Resnik Free reading links: rdcu.be/e6m67 rdcu.be/e6m7h

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ The Case Against "The Case Against Reality" by Josef Mattes Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Tom Van Dooren and I are organising a symposium on "Advances in theoretical evo-devo" at the next Euro Evo Devo meeting in Glasgow. Invited speakers: @n-martin.bsky.social, Nayely Vélez-Cruz, Thomas Hansen & Günter Wagner. Consider submitting an abstract, now open! www.evodevoconference26.com

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Making Sense of Monitor Lizard Cognition: Ecological Drivers of Divergent Cognitive Evolution by Matthew Sims Free reading link: rdcu.be/e2GZq

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Lagom: Maintenance and Regulation of Biological Heterogeneity by Mauno Vihinen Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1007/s137...

The Importance of Biological Theory - Biological Theory

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📣 Now presenting: Our new cover for 2026! Vol. 21 features "Supremus No. 55" (1916, 80 x 80 cm, oil on canvas) by Kazimir Malevich. Coming up in the March issue! See our website for more information: link.springer.com/journal/1375...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Autogenesis: An Alternative Path to Molecular Information by Terrence W. Deacon, Miguel Garcia-Valdecasas & Pau Monzón-Marqués Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Autogenesis: An Alternative Path to Molecular Information - Biological Theory

Biological Theory - In contrast to an RNA-first origin-of-life scenario, we describe an alternative proto-life process called “autogenesis” to explain how a molecule’s structure...

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➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Behavioral Modernity, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: a Case for Concept Retirement by Anton Killin Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Behavioral Modernity, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: a Case for Concept Retirement - Biological Theory

Biological Theory - Recent archaeological evidence is shedding light on the Neanderthals. New discoveries as well as recent reinterpretations of material traces associated with Neanderthals provide...

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➡️New article out!⬅️ The Driving Force of Natural Selection: Maximizing Entropy Production Rates (with an Anonymous Commentary, a Commentary by Rod Swenson, and a Reply by the Author) by Linbo Wang Free reading link: rdcu.be/eYaxV