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We don't want to end the year without a big thank you to our reviewers. We couldn't do it without your support! Find our vol. 20 stars here: rdcu.be/eUOH7

➡️New article out⬅️ The Fate of Behavioral Modernity by Andra Meneganzin Free reading link: rdcu.be/eUOUH

With the end of this year, Stuart Newman will step down from his role as Editor-in-Chief. We sincerely thank Stuart for his outstanding 10 years of service and dedication to Biological Theory! Read Stuart's Farewell Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10…

➡️New issue out!⬅️ Our special issue on "The Concept of Lineage in Biology" guest edited by Javier Suárez and Matthew Haber is now out. See everything in the December issue here: link.springer.com/journal/13…

➡️New article out⬅️ Creativity and Practical Underdetermination: How Experimental Science Steps into the Epistemic Adjacent Possible by Andrew Bollhagen Open access: link.springer.com/article/10…

➡️New two-part article out now⬅️ Symmetry, Symmetry Breaking, and the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Intelligence (Cognition/Mind) from Universal First Principles—Part 1 & Part 2 by Rod Swenson Open access: link.springer.com/article/10… link.springer.com/article/10…

➡️New article out⬅️ Homo Imaginatus? Mimesis, Violence and Prefrontal Synthesis in the Evolution of a Literary Species (with a Commentary by D. Vincent Riordan and a Reply by the Author) by Gregory J. Lobo Free reading link: rdcu.be/eQ9zs

➡️New article out⬅️ Complicating the Concept of Lineage: A Topical Collection by Javier Suárez & Matthew H. Haber Introduction to the Thematic Issue "The Concept of Lineage in Biology," coming up in our December 2025 issue! Free reading link: rdcu.be/eQ9qL

➡️New article out⬅️ Illuminating Cells: Mechanistic Heuristics in the Age of Fluorescence Microscopy by Hanna Lucia Worliczek, Karl S. Matlin & Sara Green Open access: link.springer.com/article/10…

➡️New article out⬅️ Open-Ended Control Versus Closed-Ended Control: Limits of Mechanistic Explanation by Jason Winning Free reading link:rdcu.be/eQ6ym

➡️New article out⬅️ The Bechtel Approach to the Scope and Limits of Mechanistic Explanation by Daniel C. Burnston Free reading link: rdcu.be/eLgQT

➡️New article out⬅️ Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change by Leonardo Bich & Laura Menatti Open access: link.springer.com/article/10…

➡️New article out⬅️ Meme’s Eye View of Pleistocene Symbolic Behavior. by Ronald J. Planer Free reading link: rdcu.be/eJ1BA

➡️ New issue out now! ⬅️ See everything in the September issue here: link.springer.com/journal/13…

➡️New article out⬅️ "The Interface as a Privileged Level of Organization in Life Sciences: Implications for Control and Causation in Complex Systems" by Igor Branchi Free reading link: rdcu.be/evPD2 @IgorBranchi

➡️New article out⬅️ "Tracing Biosignatures as Universal Potential Biomarkers for the Origin of Life" by Nishtha Sah, Utkarsh Jain & Nidhi Chauhan Free reading link: rdcu.be/evD2k

➡️New book review out⬅️ "Systems Science and Scientific Metaphysics" by William Andrew Rottschaefer Reviewing "Elements and Relations: Aspects of a Scientific Metaphysics" by Martin Zwick Free reading link: rdcu.be/evkQ1