Pierrick Bourrat

Most-cited papers

Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation
Q. Atkinson, Pierrick Bourrat
2011168 citations
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Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality
A. Black, Pierrick Bourrat, P. Rainey
2020Nature Ecology & Evolution95 citations Open access
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Surveillance Cues Enhance Moral Condemnation
Pierrick Bourrat, N. Baumard, Ryan T. McKay
2011Evolutionary Psychology69 citations Open access
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From survivors to replicators: evolution by natural selection revisited
Pierrick Bourrat
201452 citations
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Why the missing heritability might not be in the DNA
Pierrick Bourrat, Qiaoying Lu, E. Jablonka
2017Bioessays43 citations
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How to Read ‘Heritability’ in the Recipe Approach to Natural Selection
Pierrick Bourrat
2015British Journal for the Philosophy of Science41 citations Open access
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The Evolutionary Gene and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis1
Qiaoying Lu, Pierrick Bourrat
2017British Journal for the Philosophy of Science40 citations Open access
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Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection
Pierrick Bourrat
202139 citations
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Interpreting Heritability Causally
Kate E. Lynch, Pierrick Bourrat
2017Philosophia Scientiæ37 citations
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Levels, Time and Fitness in Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
Pierrick Bourrat
201533 citations Open access
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Multispecies individuals
Pierrick Bourrat, P. Griffiths
2018History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences32 citations
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Levels of Selection are Artefacts of Different Fitness Temporal Measures
Pierrick Bourrat
201531 citations Open access
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Dissolving the Missing Heritability Problem
Pierrick Bourrat, Qiaoying Lu
2017Philosophia Scientiæ28 citations
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The idea of mismatch in evolutionary medicine
Pierrick Bourrat, P. Griffiths
2021British Journal for the Philosophy of Science26 citations Open access
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Variation of information as a measure of one-to-one causal specificity
Pierrick Bourrat
2018European Journal for Philosophy of Science26 citations
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Are Biological Traits Explained by Their ‘Selected Effect’ Functions?
J. R. Christie, Carl Brusse, Pierrick Bourrat, P. Takacs +1 more
2022Australasian Philosophical Review23 citations Open access
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Fidelity and the grain problem in cultural evolution
M. Charbonneau, Pierrick Bourrat
2021Synthese23 citations Open access
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Explaining Drift from a Deterministic Setting
Pierrick Bourrat
201722 citations
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Heritability, causal influence and locality
Pierrick Bourrat
2019Synthese20 citations
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Distinguishing Natural Selection from Other Evolutionary Processes in the Evolution of Altruism
Pierrick Bourrat
201520 citations
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Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor
Pierrick Bourrat, G. Doulcier, C. Rose, P. Rainey +1 more
2021bioRxiv19 citations Open access
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Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties
Pierrick Bourrat
2022British Journal for the Philosophy of Science18 citations Open access
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Supernatural punishment and individual social compliance across cultures
Pierrick Bourrat, Q. Atkinson, Robin I. M. Dunbar
201118 citations
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Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch
P. Griffiths, Pierrick Bourrat
2023Evolution, Medicine and Public Health17 citations Open access
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Taming fitness: Organism‐environment interdependencies preclude long‐term fitness forecasting
G. Doulcier, P. Takács, Pierrick Bourrat
2020Bioessays17 citations
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Evolutionary transitions in heritability and individuality
Pierrick Bourrat
2017Theory in biosciences17 citations Open access
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Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately.
Pierrick Bourrat
2021Studies in history and philosophy of science16 citations
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Transitions in evolution: a formal analysis
Pierrick Bourrat
2019Synthese15 citations
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On Calcott’s permissive and instructive cause distinction
Pierrick Bourrat
2018Biology & Philosophy15 citations
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Generalizing Contextual Analysis
Pierrick Bourrat
2016Acta Biotheoretica15 citations
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Have Causal Claims About the Gut Microbiome Been Over‐Hyped?
Pierrick Bourrat
2018Bioessays14 citations
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A Pricean Formalization of Gaia
Pierrick Bourrat
2023Philosophia Scientiæ13 citations Open access
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The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness
P. Takács, Pierrick Bourrat
2022Biology & Philosophy13 citations Open access
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Origins and evolution of religion from a Darwinian point of view: synthesis of different theories
Pierrick Bourrat
201513 citations Open access
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Stability of ecologically scaffolded traits during evolutionary transitions in individuality
G. Doulcier, P. Takács, Katrin Hammerschmidt, Pierrick Bourrat
2023bioRxiv12 citations Open access
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Unifying heritability in evolutionary theory.
Pierrick Bourrat
2021Studies in history and philosophy of science12 citations
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Natural Selection and Drift as Individual-Level Causes of Evolution
Pierrick Bourrat
2018Acta Biotheoretica11 citations
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What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?
Pierrick Bourrat, W. Godsoe, Pradeep Pillai, Tarik C. Gouhier +3 more
2023Oikos10 citations Open access
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Natural Selection beyond Life? A Workshop Report
S. Charlat, A. Ariew, Pierrick Bourrat, María Ferreira Ruiz +12 more
2021Life10 citations Open access
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Natural selection and the reference grain problem.
Pierrick Bourrat
2020Studies in history and philosophy of science10 citations
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Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality: the transition from cells to multicellular life
A. Black, Pierrick Bourrat, P. Rainey
201910 citations Open access
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Individuality Through Ecology: Rethinking the Evolution of Complex Life From an Externalist Perspective
Pierrick Bourrat, Peter Takacs, G. Doulcier, Matthew C. Nitschke +3 more
2024Ecology and Evolution9 citations Open access
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A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes
Pierrick Bourrat
2023Biology & Philosophy8 citations Open access
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Multilevel selection 1, multilevel selection 2, and the Price equation: a reappraisal
Pierrick Bourrat
2023Synthese8 citations Open access
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Measuring Causal Invariance Formally
Pierrick Bourrat
2021Entropy8 citations Open access
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The Effect of Bottleneck Size on Evolution in Nested Darwinian Populations
Matthew C. Nitschke, A. Black, Pierrick Bourrat, P. Rainey
2022bioRxiv7 citations Open access
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Causation and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Heritability
Pierrick Bourrat
2020Philosophia Scientiæ7 citations
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Causation and SNP Heritability
Pierrick Bourrat
20207 citations
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Evolution is About Populations, But Its Causes are About Individuals
Pierrick Bourrat
2019Biological Theory7 citations
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Replication and Reproduction
J. Wilkins, Pierrick Bourrat
20017 citations
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