Daniel W. McShea, Ph.D - Publications

Affiliations: 
Duke University, Durham, NC 
Area:
Paleobiology, Philosophy

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2019 McShea DW, Wang SC, Brandon RN. A quantitative formulation of biology's first law. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 30980538 DOI: 10.1111/Evo.13735  0.343
2017 Heim NA, Payne JL, Finnegan S, Knope ML, Kowalewski M, Lyons SK, McShea DW, Novack-Gottshall PM, Smith FA, Wang SC. Hierarchical complexity and the size limits of life. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 284. PMID 28637850 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2017.1039  0.734
2016 McShea DW. Freedom and purpose in biology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. PMID 26777154 DOI: 10.1016/J.Shpsc.2015.12.002  0.366
2016 Smith FA, Payne JL, Heim NA, Balk MA, Finnegan S, Kowalewski M, Lyons SK, McClain CR, McShea DW, Novack-Gottshall PM, Anich PS, Wang SC. Body Size Evolution Across the Geozoic Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 44: 523-553. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Earth-060115-012147  0.729
2015 McShea DW. Three Trends in the History of Life: An Evolutionary Syndrome Evolutionary Biology. DOI: 10.1007/S11692-015-9323-X  0.462
2013 Fleming L, McShea DW. Drosophila mutants suggest a strong drive toward complexity in evolution. Evolution & Development. 15: 53-62. PMID 23331917 DOI: 10.1111/Ede.12014  0.362
2012 McShea DW. Upper-directed systems: A new approach to teleology in biology Biology and Philosophy. 27: 663-684. DOI: 10.1007/S10539-012-9326-2  0.301
2011 Liow LH, Simpson C, Bouchard F, Damuth J, Hallgrimsson B, Hunt G, McShea DW, Powell JR, Stenseth NC, Stoller MK, Wagner G. Pioneering paradigms and magnificent manifestos--Leigh Van Valen's priceless contributions to evolutionary biology. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 65: 917-22. PMID 21463292 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2011.01242.X  0.515
2011 Payne JL, McClain CR, Boyer AG, Brown JH, Finnegan S, Kowalewski M, Krause RA, Lyons SK, McShea DW, Novack-Gottshall PM, Smith FA, Spaeth P, Stempien JA, Wang SC. The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective. Photosynthesis Research. 107: 37-57. PMID 20821265 DOI: 10.1007/S11120-010-9593-1  0.708
2011 Kowalewski M, Payne JL, Smith FA, Wang SC, McShea DW, Xiao S, Novack-Gottshall PM, McClain CR, Krause RA, Boyer AG, Finnegan S, Lyons SK, Stempien JA, Alroy J, Spaeth PA. The geozoic supereon Palaios. 26: 251-255. DOI: 10.2110/Palo.2011.S03  0.706
2009 Payne JL, Boyer AG, Brown JH, Finnegan S, Kowalewski M, Krause RA, Lyons SK, McClain CR, McShea DW, Novack-Gottshall PM, Smith FA, Stempien JA, Wang SC. Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 24-7. PMID 19106296 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0806314106  0.74
2007 Marcot JD, McShea DW. Increasing hierarchical complexity throughout the history of life: Phylogenetic tests of trend mechanisms Paleobiology. 33: 182-200. DOI: 10.1666/06028.1  0.443
2005 McShea DW. The evolution of complexity without natural selection, a possible large-scale trend of the fourth kind Paleobiology. 31: 146-156. DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0146:Teocwn]2.0.Co;2  0.405
2004 Marino L, McShea DW, Uhen MD. Origin and evolution of large brains in toothed whales. The Anatomical Record. Part a, Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology. 281: 1247-55. PMID 15497142 DOI: 10.1002/Ar.A.20128  0.378
2003 McShea DW, Changizi MA. Three puzzles in hierarchical evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 43: 74-81. PMID 21680411 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/43.1.74  0.436
2002 McShea DW. A complexity drain on cells in the evolution of multicellularity. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 56: 441-52. PMID 11989676 DOI: 10.1111/J.0014-3820.2002.Tb01357.X  0.437
2002 McShea DW, Venit EP. Testing for bias in the evolution of coloniality: A demonstration in cyclostome bryozoans Paleobiology. 28: 308-327. DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0308:Tfbite>2.0.Co;2  0.556
2001 Anderson C, McShea DW. Individual versus social complexity, with particular reference to ant colonies. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 76: 211-37. PMID 11396847 DOI: 10.1017/S1464793101005656  0.351
2001 Ciampaglio CN, Kemp M, McShea DW. Detecting changes in morphospace occupation patterns in the fossil record: Characterization and analysis of measures of disparity Paleobiology. 27: 695-715. DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0695:Dcimop>2.0.Co;2  0.67
2001 McShea DW. The hierarchical structure of organisms: A scale and documentation of a trend in the maximum Paleobiology. 27: 405-423. DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0405:Thsooa>2.0.Co;2  0.469
2001 McShea DW. The minor transitions in hierarchical evolution and the question of a directional bias Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 14: 502-518. DOI: 10.1046/J.1420-9101.2001.00283.X  0.476
2001 Anderson C, McShea DW. Intermediate-level parts in insect societies: Adaptive structures that ants build away from the nest Insectes Sociaux. 48: 291-301. DOI: 10.1007/Pl00001781  0.37
2000 McShea DW. Trends, tools, and terminology Paleobiology. 26: 330-333. DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2000)026<0330:Ttat>2.0.Co;2  0.444
2000 McShea DW. Functional complexity in organisms: Parts as proxies Biology and Philosophy. 15: 641-668. DOI: 10.1023/A:1006695908715  0.327
1998 McShea DW. Possible largest-scale trends in organismal evolution: Eight 'live hypotheses' Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 29: 293-318. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Ecolsys.29.1.293  0.383
1996 McShea DW. PERSPECTIVE METAZOAN COMPLEXITY AND EVOLUTION: IS THERE A TREND? Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 50: 477-492. PMID 28568940 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1996.Tb03861.X  0.322
1994 McShea DW. MECHANISMS OF LARGE-SCALE EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 48: 1747-1763. PMID 28565153 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1994.Tb02211.X  0.412
1994 McShea DW. Evolutionary trends and the salience bias (with apologies to oil tankers, Karl Marx, and others) Technical Communication Quarterly. 3: 21-38. DOI: 10.1080/10572259409364556  0.385
1993 McShea DW. EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IN THE MORPHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY OF THE MAMMALIAN VERTEBRAL COLUMN. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 47: 730-740. PMID 28567892 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1993.Tb01229.X  0.384
1993 McShea DW. Arguments, tests, and the Burgess Shale — a commentary on the debate Paleobiology. 19: 399-402. DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300014044  0.413
1992 McShea DW. A metric for the study of evolutionary trends in the complexity of serial structures Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 45: 39-55. DOI: 10.1111/J.1095-8312.1992.Tb00630.X  0.35
1991 McShea DW. Complexity and evolution: What everybody knows Biology and Philosophy. 6: 303-324. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00132234  0.371
1986 McShea DW, Raup DM. Completeness of the geological record. The Journal of Geology. 94: 569-74. PMID 11542057 DOI: 10.1086/629058  0.582
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