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Samwald, M., Lim E., Masiar P., Marenco L., Chen H., Morse T., et al. (2009).  Entrez neuron RDFa: A pragmatic Semantic Web application for data integration in neuroscience research. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 150, 317 - 321. Abstract
Arden, R., Gottfredson L. S., & Miller G. (2009).  Does a tness factor contribute to the association between intelligence and health outcomes? Evidence from medical abnormality counts among 3654 US Veterans . Intelligence. #, #-#. Abstract
Rosas, A. (2009).  Levels of selection in synergy. Teorema. 28(2), 135 - 150. Abstract
Bar, M. (2009).  A cognitive neuroscience hypothesis of mood and depression. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13, 456-463. Abstract
Sullivan, P. R. (2009).  Objects limit human comprehension. Biology and Philosophy. 24(1), 65 - 79. Abstract
Abrams, M. (2009).  Fitness "kinematics": Biological function, altruism, and organism-environment development. Biology and Philosophy. 24(4), 487 - 504. Abstract
Atallah, J., Liu N H., Dennis P., Hon A., & Larsen E. W. (2009).  Developmental constraints and convergent evolution in Drosophila sex comb formation. Evolution and Development. 11, 205-218. Abstract
Turner, D. D. (2009).  How much can we know about the causes of evolutionary trends?. Biology and Philosophy. 24(3), 341 - 357. Abstract
Valles, S. A. (2009).  The mystery of the mystery of common genetic diseases. Biology and Philosophy. 1 - 19. Abstract
Wrosch, C., M. G. E. (2009).  Depressive Symptoms Can Be Useful: Self-Regulatory and Emotional Benefits of Dysphoric Mood in Adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 96, 1181-1190. Abstract
Tal, O. (2009).  From heritability to probability. Biology and Philosophy. 24(1), 81 - 105. Abstract
Mayes, G. R. (2009).  Naturalizing cruelty. Biology and Philosophy. 24(1), 21 - 34. Abstract

I propose a fully naturalized definition of cruelty, one that considerably expands the range of creatures and behaviors that may be conceived as cruel.
Rieppel, O. (2009).  'Total evidence' in phylogenetic systematics. Biology and Philosophy. 24(5), 607 - 622. Abstract
Velasco, J. D. (2009).  When monophyly is not enough: Exclusivity as the key to defining a phylogenetic species concept. Biology and Philosophy. 24(4), 473 - 486. Abstract
Potochnik, A. (2009).  Optimality modeling in a suboptimal world. Biology and Philosophy. 24(2), 183 - 197. Abstract
Bergstrom, C. T., & Rosvall M. (2009).  The transmission sense of information. Biology and Philosophy. 1 - 18. Abstract
Swan, L. S. (2009).  Synthesizing insight: Artificial life as thought experimentation in biology. Biology and Philosophy. 24(5), 687 - 701. Abstract
DesAutels, L. (2009).  Sober and Elgin on laws of biology: a critique. Biology and Philosophy. 1 - 8. Abstract
Lewens, T. (2009).  Seven types of adaptationism. Biology and Philosophy. 24(2), 161 - 182. Abstract
Skewes, J. C., & Hooker C. A. (2009).  Bio-agency and the problem of action. Biology and Philosophy. 24(3), 283 - 300. Abstract
Uher, R. (2009).  The role of genetic variation in the causation of mental illness: An evolution-informed framework. Molecular Psychiatry. 14, 1072-1082. Abstract

An alternative evolution-informed framework is proposed, which suggests that gene-environment interactions and rare genetic variants constitute most of the genetic contribution to mental illness. Common mental illness with mild reproductive disadvantage is likely to have a large contribution from interactions between common genetic variants and environmental exposures. Severe mental illness that confers strong reproductive disadvantage is likely to have a large and pleiotropic contribution from rare variants of recent origin.
Sandvik, H. (2009).  Anthropocentricisms in cladograms. Biology and Philosophy. 24(4), 425 - 440. Abstract
Mitteroecker, P., & Bookstein F. (2009).  The ontogenetic trajectory of the phenotypic covariance matrix, with examples from craniofacial shape in rats and humans. Evolution. 63(3), 727 - 737. Abstract
Gácsi, M., Györi B., Virányi Z., Kubinyi E., Range F., Belényi B., et al. (2009).  Explaining dog wolf differences in utilizing human pointing gestures: Selection for synergistic shifts in the development of some social skills. PLoS ONE. 4(8),  Abstract
Potochnik, A. (2009).  Optimality modeling in a suboptimal world. Biology and Philosophy. 24, 183-197. Abstract

The fate of optimality modeling is typically linked to that of adaptationism: the two are thought to stand or fall together. I argue here that this is mistaken.
Jokela, M., & Keltikangas-Järvinen L. (2009).  Adolescent leadership and adulthood fertility: revisiting the "central theoretical problem of human sociobiology". Journal of personality. 77(1), 213-29. Abstract

High adolescent leadership increased adulthood fertility in men and women, independently of education level and urbanicity of residence
Kinney, D.K., T. M. (2009).  An evolutionary hypothesis of depression and its symptoms, adaptive value, and risk factors. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 197, 561-567. Abstract

The evolutionary costs of depression are offset by its benefits in combating existing infections and avoiding new ones.
Gunz, P., Bookstein F. L., Mitteroecker P., Stadlmayr A., Seidler H., & Weber G. W. (2009).  Early modern human diversity suggests subdivided population structure and a complex out-of-Africa scenario. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106(15), 6094 - 6098. Abstract
Asay, J. (2009).  Constructive empiricism and deflationary truth. Philosophy of Science. 76, 423—443. Abstract

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Moreno, A., & Ruiz-Mirazo K. (2009).  The problem of the emergence of functional diversity in prebiotic evolution. Biology and Philosophy. 24(5), 585 - 605. Abstract
Range, F., Horn L., Viranyi Z., & Huber L. (2009).  The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106(1), 340 - 345. Abstract
Datteri, E. (2009).  Simulation experiments in bionics: A regulative methodological perspective. Biology and Philosophy. 24(3), 301 - 324. Abstract
Van Valen, L. (2009).  How ubiquitous is adaptation? A critique of the epiphenomenist program. Biology and Philosophy. 24(2), 267 - 280. Abstract
Ruttenberg, A., Rees J. A., Samwald M., & Marshall M. S. (2009).  Life sciences on the Semantic Web: The Neurocommons and beyond. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 10(2), 193 - 204. Abstract
Aronova, E. (2009).  In search of the soul in science: Medical ethics' appropriation of philosophy of science in the 1970s . History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 31, 5-34. Abstract
Forber, P. (2009).  Introduction: A primer on adaptationism. Biology and Philosophy. 24(2), 155 - 159.
Range, F., Heucke S. L., Gruber C., Konz A., Huber L., & Virányi Z. (2009).  The effect of ostensive cues on dogs' performance in a manipulative social learning task. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 120(3-4), 170 - 178. Abstract
Archetti, M. (2009).  Survival of the steepest: Hypersensitivity to mutations as an adaptation to soft selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22, 740-750. Abstract
Shavit, A., & Griesemer J. (2009).  There and Back Again, or the Problem of Locality in Biodiversity Surveys. Philosophy of Science. 76, 273-294. Abstract

‘Locality’ is inherently ambiguous since the same term adheres to different concepts committed to different practices that cannot be employed on the same spatial scale. By accepting ‘locality’ as a process rather than a fixed state, one may be more alert to record its contexts from the start.
Mitteroecker, P. (2009).  The developmental basis of variational modularity: Insights from quantitative genetics, morphometrics, and developmental biology. Evolutionary Biology. 36(4), 377 - 385. Abstract