This article introduces a special issue on evolutionary innovation and morphological novelty,
two interrelated themes that have received a remarkable increase of attention over the past …

According to many biologists, explaining the evolution of morphological novelty and
behavioral innovation are central endeavors in contemporary evolutionary biology. These …

The paper works towards an account of explanatory integration in biology, using as a case
study explanations of the evolutionary origin of novelties—a problem requiring the …

According to British scholar Conor Cunningham, the debate today between religion and
evolution has been hijacked by extremists: on one side stand fundamentalist believers who …

Psychology is a theoretically heterogeneous discipline seeking a single, cohesive
framework to unite the subdisciplines. To address this issue, I propose a hierarchical …

Evolutionary developmental biology and niche‐construction theory have much in common,
despite independent intellectual origins. Both place emphasis on the role of ontogenetic …

By linking the concepts of homology and morphological organization to evolvability, this
paper attempts to (1) bridge the gap between developmental and phylogenetic approaches …

This paper describes a pattern of explanation prevalent in the biological sciences that I call a
'lineage explanation'. The aim of these explanations is to make plausible certain trajectories …

It is a common complaint that antireductionist arguments are primarily negative. Here I
describe an alternative nonreductionist epistemology based on considerations taken from …

This essay analyzes and develops recent views about explanation in biology. Philosophers
of biology have parted with the received deductive-nomological model of scientific …