This article introduces organismic agency as the principle of individual selection. Individual selection involves the organism itself selecting a behavior or development according to individual prefer...

Efforts to predict individual cancer risk typically rely on genomic data together with environmental factors external to the organism. Yet even when these domains are considered jointly, a substantial...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

The European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology is delighted to welcome you to the 10th biennial meeting, to be held at the University of Glasgow from June 9th - 12th in 2026.

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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...

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...