Sultan SE, Moczek AP, Walsh D 2022. Bridging the Explanatory Gaps: What can we learn from a biological agency perspective? BioEssays: 10.1002/bies.202100185.

This manuscript explores BIOLOGICAL AGENCY, the capacity of living systems to participate in their own development, adaptation, and evolution, to help us understand better why and how living systems work, persist, innovate the way they do.

Hu Y, Moczek AP 2021.Wing serial homologs and the diversification of insect outgrowths: insights from the pupae of scarab beetles. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 288:20202828.

In this manuscript we provide evidence that supports that cell populations, tissues, and gene regulatory networks segmentally reiterated along the insect body have facilitated the developmental evolution of diverse dorsal appendages, from true wings to beetle horns and the many projections found on abdominal segments.

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