Peer-Reviewed Papers
Evolution
Levin, M. (2023), Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis as a Teleonomic Process, in Corning, P. A., Kauffman, S. A., Noble, D., Shapiro, J. A., Vane-Wright, R. I. Pross, A. (Eds.), Evolution "On Purpose": Teleonomy in Living Systems, The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 175-197
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Clawson, W. P., and Levin, M. (2023), Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 139(4): 457-486
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Levin, M. (2023), Darwin’s agential materials: evolutionary implications of multiscale competency in developmental biology, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 80: 142
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Shreesha, L., and Levin, M. (2023), Cellular Competency during Development Alters Evolutionary Dynamics in an Artificial Embryogeny Model, Entropy, 25(1), 131, doi:10.3390/e25010131
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Smiley, P., and Levin, M. (2022), Competition for Finite Resources as Coordination Mechanism for Morphogenesis: an evolutionary algorithm study of digital embryogeny, BioSystems, 221: 104672
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2022), Competency in Navigating Arbitrary Spaces as an Invariant for Analyzing Cognition in Diverse Embodiments, Entropy, 24(6): 819
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Kuchling, F., Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2022) Metacognition as a Consequence of Competing Evolutionary Time Scales, Entropy, 24(5): 601
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Watson, R. A., Levin, M., and Buckley, C. L. (2022) Design for an Individual: Connectionist approaches to the evolutionary transitions in individuality, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 823588
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Levin, M. (2022), Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: an experimentally-grounded framework for understanding diverse bodies and minds, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16: 768201
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Levin, M., and Yuste, R. (2022), Modular cognition, Aeon Essays
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Klein, B., Hoel, E., Swain, A., Griebenow, R., and Levin, M. (2021), Evolution and emergence: higher order information structure in protein interactomes across the tree of life, Integrative Biology, 13(12): 283-294
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Yuste, R., and Levin, M. (2021), New Clues about the Origins of Biological Intelligence, Scientific American, December 2021
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Levin, M. (2021), Life, death, and self: Fundamental questions of primitive cognition viewed through the lens of body plasticity and synthetic organisms, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 564: 114-133
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Levin, M. (2021), Unlimited plasticity of embodied, cognitive subjects: a new playground for the UAL framework, Biology and Philosophy, 36(2): 17
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Bongard, J., and Levin, M. (2021), Living things are not (20th Century) machines: updating mechanism metaphors in light of the modern science of machine behavior, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 650726
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Levin, M., Keijzer, F., Lyon, P., and Arend, D. (2021), Uncovering cognitive similarities and differences, conservation and innovation, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1821): 20200458
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Lyon, P., Keijzer, F., Arendt, D., and Levin, M. (2021), Reframing cognition: getting down to biological basics, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1821): 20190750
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Biswas, S., Manicka, S., Hoel, E., and Levin, M. (2021), Gene Regulatory Networks Exhibit Several Kinds of Memory: Quantification of Memory in Biological and Random Transcriptional Networks, iScience, 24(3): 102131
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2020), Why isn't sex optional? Stem-cell competition, loss of regenerative capacity, and cancer in metazoan evolution, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 13(1): 170-183
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Levin, M., and Dennett, Daniel C. (2020), How to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas, Aeon Essays
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2020), Does evolution have a target morphology? Organisms, 4(1): 57-76
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Hoel, E., and Levin, M. (2020), Emergence of Informative Higher Scales in Biological Systems: a computational toolkit for optimal prediction and control, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 13(1): 108-118
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2020), Scale-Free Biology: Integrating Evolutionary and Developmental Thinking, BioEssays, 42(8): 1900228
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2020), Does regeneration recapitulate phylogeny? Communicative and Integrative Biology, 13(1): 27-38
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Tung, A., and Levin, M. (2020), Extra-genomic instructive influences in morphogenesis: A review of external signals that regulate growth and form, Developmental Biology, 461: 1-12
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Fields, C., Bischof, J., and Levin, M. (2020), Morphological Coordination: A Common Ancestral Function Unifying Neural and Non-Neural Signaling, Physiology, 35: 16-30
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Levin, M., and Martinez-Arias, A. (2019), Reverse-engineering growth and form in Heidelberg, Development, 146(14): dev177261
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2018), Multiscale Memory And Bioelectric Error Correction In The Cytoplasm-Cytoskeleton-Membrane System, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine, 10(2): e1410
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2018), Are planaria individuals? What regenerative biology is telling us about the nature of multicellularity, Evolutionary Biology, 45(3): 237-247
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Baluška, F., and Levin, M. (2016), On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems, Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 902
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Pai, V. P., Martyniuk, C. J., Echeverri, K., Sundelacruz, S., Kaplan, D. L., and Levin, M. (2016), Genome-wide analysis reveals conserved transcriptional responses downstream of resting potential change in Xenopus embryos, axolotl regeneration, and human mesenchymal cell differentiation, Regeneration, 3(1): 3-25
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Levin, M. (2014), Endogenous bioelectrical networks store non-genetic patterning information during development and regeneration, Journal of Physiology, 592(11): 2295-2305
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Lobikin, M., Wang, G., Xu, J.-S., Hsieh, Y.-W., Chuang, C.-F., Lemire, J. M., and Levin, M. (2012), Early, nonciliary role for microtubule proteins in left-right patterning is conserved across kingdoms, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 109(31): 12586-12591
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Vandenberg, L., and Levin, M. (2009), Perspectives and open problems in the early phases of left-right patterning, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 20(4): 456-463
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Oviedo, N., and Levin, M. (2007), Gap junctions provide new links in left-right patterning, Cell, 129(4): 645-647
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Levin, M. (2006), Is the Early Left-Right Axis like a Plant, a Kidney, or a Neuron? The Integration of Physiological Signals in Left-Right Asymmetry, Birth Defects Research
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Levin, M., and Mercola, M. (1998), Evolutionary conservation of mechanisms upstream of asymmetric nodal expression: Reconciling chick and Xenopus, Developmental Genetics, 23(3): 185-193
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Levin, M. (1995), The evolution of understanding: A genetic algorithm model of the evolution of animal communication, BioSystems, 36(3): 167-178
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