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Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Pigliucci, M. 2008. Sewall Wright's adaptive landscapes: 1932 vs. 1988. Biology and Philosophy 23:591-603.

Bossdorf, O, Richards, CL, and Pigliucci, M. 2008. Epigenetics for ecologists. Ecol Lett 11(2):106-15.

Pigliucci, M. 2008. Is evolvability evolvable? Nat Rev Genet 9(1):75-82.

Pigliucci. 2008. What, if anything, is an evolutionary novelty? Philosophy of Science 75:887-898.

Pigliucci, M. 2008. The borderlands between science and philosophy: an introduction. Q Rev Biol 83(1):7-15.

Pigliucci, M. 2007. Finding the way in phenotypic space: the origin and maintenance of constraints on organismal form. Ann Bot (Lond) 100(3):433-8.

Pigliucci, M. 2007. Primates, philosophers and the biological basis of morality: a review of primates and philosophers by Frans De Waal, Princeton University Press, 2006, 200 pp. Biology and Philosophy 22(4):611-618.

Pigliucci, M. 2007. Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis? Evolution 61(12):2743-9.

Pigliucci, M. 2007. The evolution-creation wars: why teaching more science just is not enough. McGill Journal of Education 42(2):285-306.

Pigliucci, M. 2006. Genetic Variance-covariance Matrices: A Critique of the Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Research Program. Biology and Philosophy 21(1):1-23.

Pigliucci, M, Murren, CJ, and Schlichting, CD. 2006. Phenotypic plasticity and evolution by genetic assimilation. J Exp Biol 209(Pt 12):2362-7.

Pigliucci, M. 2005. Evolution of phenotypic plasticity: where are we going now? Trends Ecol Evol 20(9):481-6.

Johnson, M and Pigliucci, M. 2004. Is knowledge of science associated with higher skepticism of pseudoscientific claims? American Biology Teacher 66(8):536-548.

Pigliucci, M. 2004. Natural selection and its limits: where ecology meets evolution. In Atti Del XIII Congress Nazionale Della Societa` Italiana Di Ecologia. Ed. R Casagrandi and P Melia`. Rome, Italy: Aracne.

Pigliucci, M. 2003. From molecules to phenotypes? - The promise and limits of integrative biology. Basic and Applied Ecology 4(4):297-306.

Pigliucci, M. 2003. Species as family resemblance concepts: the (dis-)solution of the species problem? Bioessays 25(6):596-602.

Pigliucci, M. 2003. Phenotypic integration: studying the ecology and evolution of complex phenotypes. Ecol Lett 6(3):265-272.

Pigliucci, M and Murren, CJ. 2003. Perspective: Genetic assimilation and a possible evolutionary paradox: can macroevolution sometimes be so fast as to pass us by? Evolution 57(7):1455-64.

Pigliucci, M and Kaplan, J. 2003. On the Concept of Biological Race and Its Applicability to Humans. Philosophy of Science 70(5):1161-1172.

Pigliucci, M. 2003. On the relationship between science and ethics. Zygon 38(4):871-894.

Pigliucci, M. 2002. Are ecology and evolutionary biology "soft" sciences? Annales Zoologici Fennici 39:87-98.

Kaplan, JM and Pigliucci, M. 2001. Genes 'for' Phenotypes: A Modern History View. Biology and Philosophy 16(2):189-213.

Pigliucci, M. 2001. Phenotypic plasticity. In Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and Case Studies. Ed. CW Fox, DA Roff, and DJ Fairbairn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pigliucci, M. 2001. Characters and environments. In The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology. Ed. GP Wagner. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Pigliucci, I and Kaplan, I. 2000. The fall and rise of Dr Pangloss: adaptationism and the Spandrels paper 20 years later. Trends Ecol Evol 15(2):66-70.

Pigliucci, M. 1998. Developmental phenotypic plasticity: where internal programming meets the external environment. Curr Opin Plant Biol 1(1):87-91.

Pigliucci, M. 1998. Plasticity genes: what are they, and why should we care? In The Co-Action Between Living Systems and the Planet. Ed. H Greppin, R Degli Agosti, and C Penel. Geneva: University of Geneva.

Pigliucci, M and Schlichting, CD. 1997. On the Limits of Quantitative Genetics for the Study of Phenotypic Evolution. Acta Biotheoretica 45(2):143-160.

Callahan, HS, Pigliucci, M, and Schlichting, CD. 1997. Developmental phenotypic plasticity: where ecology and evolution meet molecular biology. Bioessays 19(6):519-25.

Pigliucci, M. 1996. Modelling phenotypic plasticity. II. Do genetic correlations matter? Heredity 77 ( Pt 5):453-60.

Pigliucci, M, Schlichting, CD, Jones, CS, and Schwenk, K. 1996. Developmental Reaction Norms: the Interactions among Allometry, Ontogeny and Plasticity. Plant Species Biology 11(1):69-85.

Pigliucci, M. 1996. How organisms respond to environmental changes: from phenotypes to molecules (and vice versa). Trends in Ecology & Evolution 11(4):168-173.

Schlichting, CD and Pigliucci, M. 1995. Gene regulation, quantitative genetics and the evolution of reaction norms. Evolutionary Ecology 9(2):154-168.

Schlichting, CD and Pigliucci, M. 1993. Control of Phenotypic Plasticity Via Regulatory Genes. American Naturalist 142(2):366.

Pigliucci, M. 1992. Modelling phenotypic plasticity. I. Linear and higher-order effects of dominance, drift, environmental frequency and selection on a one-locus, two-allele model. J Genet 71:135-135.

Book Reviews

Pigliucci, M. 2008. Are you an expert? (review of The Philosophy of Expertise, ed. by E. Selinger and R.P. Crease). Quarterly Review of Biology 83(1):87-90.

Pigliucci. 2008. Adaptive landscapes, phenotypic space, and the power of metaphors (review of The Geometry of Evolution: Adaptive Landscapes and Theoretical Morphospaces, by G.R. McGhee). Quarterly Review of Biology 83(3):283-287.

Pigliucci, M. 2008. Weighing the evidence in evolutionary biology (review of Evidence and Evolution, by E. Sober). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23(12):662-663.

Pigliucci, M. 2007. What's new in philosophy of biology? (review of Philosophy of Biology, ed. by M. Matthen and C. Stephens). BioEssays 29(11):1171-1172.

Pigliucci, M. 2007. Neural sciences (review of A Mind of Its Own, by C. Fine). Quarterly Review of Biology 81:418-419.

Pigliucci, M. 2007. History, philosophy & ethics (review of Darwinism & Philosophy, ed. by V. Hosle and C. Illies). Quarterly Review of Biology 82(1):33-35.

Pigliucci, M. 2007. Postgenomic Musings (review of The Origins of Genome Architecture, by M. Lynch). Science 317(5842):1172.

Pigliucci, M. 2006. Have we solved Darwin's dilemma? (review of The Plausibility of Life, by M.W. Kirschner and J.C. Gerhart). American Scientist 94:272-274.

Pigliucci, M. 2006. Sturtevant and Dobzhansky (review of Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, by E. Novitski). Quarterly Review of Biology 81(3):265-266.

Pigliucci, M. 2005. More than you ever wanted to know about Intelligent Design (review of What Makes Biology Unique?, by E. Mayr; Darwin and Design, by M. Ruse; Debating Design, ed. by W.A. Dembski and M. Ruse; Why Intelligent Design Fails, ed. by M. Young and T. Edis). Evolution 59(12):2717-2790.

Pigliucci, M. 2005. Expanding evolution (review of Evolution in Four Dimensions, by E. Jablonka and M.J. Lamb). Nature 435(2 June).

Pigliucci, M. 2005. Bayes's theorem (review of Bayes's Theorem, ed. by R. Swinburne). Quarterly Review of Biology 80(1):93-95.

Pigliucci, M. 2004. Beyond the gene, almost (review of Origination of Organismal Form, ed. by G.B. Muller and S.A. Newman). BioScience 54(6):591-592.

Pigliucci, M. 2004. Reproduction & development (review of Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution, by J.S. Robert). Quarterly Review of Biology 79:423-425.

Pigliucci, M. 2003. Nature via nurture (review of Nature via Nurture, by M. Ridley). Nat Genet 35(3):199-200.

Pigliucci, M. 2003. The new evolutionary synthesis: around the corner, or impossible chimaera? (review of Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, by M.J. West-Eberhard). Quarterly Review of Biology 78(4):449-543.

Pigliucci, M. 2002. Defending evolution, as strange as it may seem (review of Defending Evolution in the Classroom, by B.J. Alters and S.M. Alters). Evolution 56(1):206-208.

Pigliucci, M. 2001. Intelligent design theory (review of Icons of Evolution, by J. Wells). BioScience 51(5):411-414.

Pigliucci, M. 2000. Chance, necessity, and the war against science (review of The Design Inference, by W.A. Dembski). BioScience 50(1):79-87.

Pigliucci, M. 2000. Of beasts, kids, and science as a method (review of The Beast in You!, by M. McCutcheon). BioScience 50(9):826.

Pigliucci, M. 1998. Science, religion, and all that jazz (review of Summer for the Gods, by E.J. Larson). BioScience 48(5):406.

Pigliucci, M. 1997. Plant ecophysiology (review of Plant Ecophysiology, by M.V.N. Prasad). Plant Science Bullettin, no. Autumn:82.

Pigliucci, M. 1997. Advances in morphometrics (review of Advances in Morphometrics, ed. by L.F. Marcus, M. Corti, A. Loy, G.J.P. Naylor, D.E. Slice. Quarterly Review of Biology 72(December):479-480.

Other scholarly essays

Pigliucci, M. 2006. Evolutionary biology: puzzle solving or paradigm shift? Quarterly Review of Biology 81(4):377-379.

Pigliucci, M. 2005. Science and fundamentalism. EMBO Rep 6(12):1106-9.

Pigliucci, M. 2003. Epigenetics is back! Hsp90 and phenotypic variation. Cell Cycle 2(1):34-35.

Pigliucci, M. 2002. Buffer zone. Nature 417:598-599.

Pigliucci, M. 1997. Butterflies in the spotlight. BioEssays 19(4):285.

Science (from my previous career)

Richards, CL, Walls, RL, Bailey, JP, Parameswaran, R, George, T, and Pigliucci, M. 2008. Plasticity in salt tolerance traits allows for invasion of novel habitat by Japanese knotweed sl (Fallopia japonica and F. xbohemica, Polygonaceae). Am J Bot 95(8):931.

Banta, JA, Dole, J, Cruzan, MB, and Pigliucci, M. 2007. Evidence of local adaptation to coarse-grained environmental variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Evolution 61(10):2419-32.

Muth, NZ and Pigliucci, M. 2007. Implementation of a novel framework for assessing species plasticity in biological invasions: responses of Centaurea and Crepis to phosphorus and water availability. Journal of Ecology 95(5):1001-1013.

Muth, NZ and Pigliucci, M. 2006. Traits of invasives reconsidered: phenotypic comparisons of introduced invasive and introduced noninvasive plant species within two closely related clades 1. Am J Bot 93(2):188-196.

Richards, CL, Bossdorf, O, Muth, NZ, Gurevitch, J, and Pigliucci, M. 2006. Jack of all trades, master of some? On the role of phenotypic plasticity in plant invasions. Ecol Lett 9(8):981-93.

Pigliucci, M and Kolodynska, A. 2006. Phenotypic integration and response to stress in Arabidopsis thaliana: a path analytical approach. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8(3):415-433.

Murren, CJ and Pigliucci, M. 2005. Morphological responses to simulated wind in the genus Brassica (Brassicaceae): allopolyploids and their parental species 1. Am J Bot 92(5):810-818.

Murren, CJ, Denning, W, and Pigliucci, M. 2005. Relationships Between Vegetative and Life History Traits and Fitness in a Novel Field Environment: Impacts of Herbivores. Evolutionary Ecology 19(6):583-601.

Muth, N and Pigliucci, M. 2005. Using invasive species biology to teach about evolution. In Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation. Ed. J Cracraft. Colorado Springs, CO: Biological Sciences Curriculum Study.

Banta, JA and Pigliucci, M. 2005. Effects of gibberellin mutations on tolerance to apical meristem damage in Arabidopsis thaliana. Heredity 94(2):229-36.

Callahan, HS and Pigliucci, M. 2005. Indirect consequences of artificial selection on plasticity to light quality in Arabidopsis thaliana. J Evol Biol 18(6):1403-15.

Pigliucci, M and Schmitt, J. 2004. Phenotypic plasticity in response to foliar and neutral shade in gibberellin mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6(2):243-259.

Pigliucci, M. 2004a. Studying the plasticity of phenotypic integration in a model organism. In The Evolutionary Biology of Complex Phenotypes. Ed. M Pigliucci and K Preston. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pigliucci, M. 2004b. Studying mutational effects on G-Matrices. In The Evolutionary Biology of Complex Phenotypes. Ed. M Pigliucci and K Preston. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pigliucci, M, Pollard, H, and Cruzan, MB. 2003. Comparative Studies of Evolutionary Responses to Light Environments in Arabidopsis. American Naturalist 161(1):68-82.

Pigliucci, M. 2003. Selection in a model system: Ecological genetics of flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana. Ecology 84(7):1700-1712.

Kolodynska, A and Pigliucci, M. 2003. Multivariate responses to flooding in Arabidopsis: an experimental evolutionary investigation. Functional Ecology 17(1):131-140.

Murren, CJ, Pendleton, N, and Pigliucci, M. 2002. Evolution of phenotypic integration in Brassica (Brassicaceae). Am J Bot 89(4):655-663.

Pigliucci, M and Kolodynska, A. 2002. Phenotypic plasticity and integration in response to flooded conditions in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh (Brassicaceae). Ann Bot (Lond) 90:199-207.

Callahan, HS and Pigliucci, M. 2002. Shade-induced plasticity and its ecological significance in wild populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. Ecology(Durham) 83(7):1965-1980.

Pigliucci, M and Kolodynska, A. 2002. Phenotypic plasticity to light intensity in Arabidopsis thaliana: invariance of reaction norms and phenotypic integration. Evolutionary Ecology 16(1):27-47.

Pigliucci, M. 2002. Touchy and Bushy: Phenotypic Plasticity and Integration in Response to Wind Stimulation in Arabidopsis thaliana. International Journal of Plant Sciences 163(3):399-408.

Pigliucci, M. 2002. Ecology and evolutionary biology of Arabidopsis. In The Arabidopsis Book. web publication. Ed. E Meyerowitz and C Somerville. American Society of Plant Biologists.

Pollard, H, Cruzan, M, and Pigliucci, M. 2001. Comparative studies of reaction norms in Arabidopsis. I. Evolution of response to daylength. Evolutionary Ecology Research 3(2):129-155.

Pigliucci, M and Hayden, K. 2001. Phenotypic plasticity is the major determinant of changes in phenotypic integration in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist 152(3):419-430.

Pigliucci, M and Marlow, ET. 2001. Differentiation for flowering time and phenotypic integration in Arabidopsis thaliana in response to season length and vernalization. Oecologia 127(4):501-508.

Camara, MD, Ancell, CA, and Pigliucci, M. 2000. Induced mutations: A novel tool to study phenotypic integration and evolutionary constraints in Arabidopsis thaliana. Evolutionary Ecology Research 2(8):1009-1029.

Wells, CL and Pigliucci, M. 2000. Adaptive phenotypic plasticity: the case of heterophylly in aquatic plants. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 3(1):1-18.

Camara, MD and Pigliucci, M. 1999. Mutational Contributions to Genetic Variance-Covariance Matrices: An Experimental Approach Using Induced Mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana. Evolution 53(6):1692-1703.

Callahan, HS, Wells, CL, and Pigliucci, M. 1999. Light-sensitive plasticity genes in Arabidopsis thaliana: Mutant analysis and ecological genetics. Evolutionary Ecology Research 1(6):731-751.

Pigliucci, M and Schmitt, J. 1999. Genes affecting phenotypic plasticity in Arabidopsis: pleiotropic effects and reproductive fitness of photomorphogenic mutants. J Evol Biol 12(3):551-562.

Pigliucci, M, Cammell, K, and Schmitt, J. 1999. Evolution of phenotypic plasticity a comparative approach in the phylogenetic neighbourhood of Arabidopsis thaliana. J Evol Biol 12(4):779-791.

Schmitt, J, Dudley, SA, and Pigliucci, M. 1999. Manipulative Approaches to Testing Adaptive Plasticity: Phytochrome-Mediated Shade-Avoidance Responses in Plants. Am Nat 154(S1):43-54.

Pigliucci, M and Byrd, N. 1998. Genetics and evolution of phenotypic plasticity to nutrient stress in Arabidopsis: drift, constraints or selection? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 64(1):17-40.

Pigliucci, M and Schlichting, CD. 1998. Reaction norms of Arabidopsis. V. Flowering time controls phenotypic architecture in response to nutrient stress. J. Evol. Biol. 11(3):285-301.

Pigliucci, M, Tyler III, GA, and Schlichting, CD. 1998. Mutational effects on constraints on character evolution and phenotypic plasticity in Arabidopsis thaliana. J Genet 77:95-103.

Pigliucci, M. 1998. Ecological and evolutionary genetics of Arabidopsis. Trends Plant Sci 3(12):485-489.

Pigliucci, M. 1997. Ontogenetic phenotypic plasticity during the reproductive phase in Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae). Am J Bot 84(7):887-887.

Pigliucci, M, DiIorio, P, and Schlichting, CD. 1997. Phenotypic plasticity of growth trajectories in two species of Lobelia in response to nutrient availability. Journal of Ecology 85(3):265-276.

Pigliucci, M and Schlichting, CD. 1996. Reaction norms of Arabidopsis IV. Relationships between plasticity and fitness. Heredity 76 ( Pt 5):427-36.

Pigliucci, M and Schlichting, CD. 1995. Reaction norms of Arabidopsis (Brassicaceae). III. Response to nutrients in 26 populations from a worldwide collection. Am J Bot 82:1117-1117.

Pigliucci, M, Schlichting, CD, and Whitton, J. 1995. Reaction norms of Arabidopsis. II. Responses to stress and unordered environmental variation. Ecology 9:537-547.

Pigliucci, M and Schlichting, CD. 1995. Ontogenetic Reaction Norms in Lobelia Siphilitica (Lobeliaceae): Response to Shading. Ecology 76(7):2134-2144.

Schlichting, CD and Pigliucci, M. 1995. Lost in Phenotypic Space: Environment-Dependent Morphology in Phlox drummondii (Polemoniaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 156(4):542.

Pigliucci, M, Whitton, J, and Schlichting, CD. 1995. Reaction norms of Arabidopsis. I. Plasticity of characters and correlations across water, nutrient and light gradients. J. Evol. Biol. 8(4):421-438.

Villani, F, Pigliucci, M, and Cherubini, M. 1994. Evolution of Castanea sativa Mill. in Turkey and Europe. Genetical research 63(2):109-116.

Malvolti, ME, Fineschi, S, and Pigliucci, M. 1994. Morphological Integration and Genetic Variability in Juglans regia L. Journal of Heredity 85(5):389.

Paoletti, C and Pigliucci, M. 1993. Effects of Chromosomal Addition on Reaction Norms of Triticum aestivum. International Journal of Plant Sciences 154(4):473.

Pigliucci, M. 1992. Spatio-temporal variation of phenotypic plasticity and integration in natural populations of Anchusa italica Retz. Acta Oecologica 13(3):255-267.

Villani, F, Pigliucci, M, Lauteri, M, Cherubini, M, and Sun, O. 1992. Congruence between genetic, morphometric, and physiological data on differentiation of Turkish chestnut. Genome 35:251-256.

Villani, F, Benedettelli, S, Paciucci, M, Cherubini, M, and Pigliucci, M. 1991. Genetic variation and differentiation between natural populations of chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) from Italy. In Biochemical Markers in the Population Genetics of Forest Trees. Ed. S Fineschi, ME Mavolti, F Cannata, and HH Hattemer. The Hague: SPB Academic Publishing.

Pigliucci, M, Paoletti, C, Fineschi, C, and Malvolti, ME. 1991. Phenotypic integration in chestnut(Castanea sativa mill.): leaves versus fruits. Botanical Gazette 152(4):514-521.

Pigliucci, M, Politi, MG, and Bellincampi, D. 1991. Implications of phenotypic plasticity for numerical taxonomy of Ornithogalum montanum (Liliaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 69(1):34-38.

Paoletti, C, Pigliucci, M, and Serafini, M. 1991. Microenvironmental correlates of phenotypic variation in Capsella bursa-pastoris(Cruciferae). Canadian journal of botany 69(8):1637-1641.

Villani, F, Pigliucci, M, and Benedettelli, S. 1991. Genetic variation of Italian chestnut: a tool to study environmental impact. In Effects of Pollution on the Structure of Forest Tree Populations. Ed. R Giannini. Firenze: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

Villani, F and Pigliucci, M. 1991. Origin and evolution of European chestnut: a population biology perspective. In Genetic Variation in European Populations of Forest Trees. Ed. G Muller-Starck and M Ziehe. Frankfurt am Main: Saurlander's Verlag.

Pigliucci, M and Barbujani, G. 1991. Geographical patterns of gene frequencies in Italian populations of Ornithogalum montanum(Liliaceae). Genetical research 58(2):95-104.

Pigliucci, M, Malvolti, ME, and Fineschi, S. 1991. Relationships between protein polymorphism and phenotypic variation in Populus deltoides Bartr. Hereditas 114:79-84.

Villani, F, Pigliucci, M, Benedettelli, S, and Cherubini, M. 1991. Genetic differentiation among Turkish chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) populations. Heredity 66:131-136.

Pigliucci, M, Serafini, M, and Bianchi, G. 1990. A study of within and among population genetic variability in Ornithogalum montanum (Liliaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 68:1788-1795.

Pigliucci, M, Benedettelli, S, and Villani, F. 1990. Spatial patterns of genetic variability in Italian chestnut(Castanea sativa). Canadian journal of botany 68(9):1962-1967.

Pigliucci, M, Avanzati, AM, Bernini, F, and Petrucci, R. 1990. Genetic structure in populations and species of Steganacarus soil mites (Acarida, Oribatida, Phthiracaroidea). International Journal of Acarology 16(2):67-76.

Pigliucci, M, Villani, F, and Benedettelli, S. 1990. Geographic and climatic factors associated with the spatial structure of gene frequencies in Castanea sativa Mill. from Turkey. J Genet 69:141-149.

Barbujani, G and Pigliucci, M. 1989. Geographical patterns of karyotype polymorphism in Italian populations of Ornithogalum montanum (Liliaceae). Heredity 62 ( Pt 1):67-75.

Bianchi, G, D'Amato, GF, Foddai, S, Masci, SM, Pigliucci, M, and Serafini, M. 1987. Isozyme variability detected by gel electrophoresis: influence of pH and temperature on esterase tested in Ornithogalum montanum Cyr. ex Ten. (Liliaceae). Giornale Botanico Italiano 121:139-142.




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