McShea, D.W. 2005. The evolution of complexity without natural selection, a possible large-scale trend of the fourth kind. Paleobiology (Supplement) 31:146-156.
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McShea, D.W. and C. Anderson. 2005. The remodularization of the organism. In: Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems. W. Callebaut & D. Rasskin-Gutman, eds., pp. 185-206. MIT Press.

McShea, D.W. 2005. A universal generative tendency toward increased organismal complexity. In: Variation: A Central Concept in Biology. B. Hallgrimsson and B. Hall, eds., pp. 435-453. Academic Press.

Marino, L., D.W. McShea., and M.D. Uhen. 2004 Origin and evolution of large brains in toothed whales. Anatomical Record 281A:1247-1255.
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McShea, D.W. 2004. “A Revised Darwinism” (Book review: The Structure of Evolutionary Thought by Stephen Jay Gould). Biology and Philosophy  19:43-53.
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McShea, D.W. and M.A. Changizi. 2003. Three puzzles in hierarchical evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology 43:74-81.
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McShea, D.W. 2002. A complexity drain on cells in the evolution of multicellularity. Evolution 56:441-452.
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McShea, D.W. and E.P. Venit. 2002. Testing for bias in the evolution of coloniality: A demonstration in cyclostome bryozoans. Paleobiology 28:308-327.
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McShea, D.W. 2001a. The hierarchical structure of organisms: a scale and documentation of a trend in the maximum. Paleobiology 27:405-423.
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McShea, D.W. 2001b. The "minor transitions" in hierarchical evolution and the question of directional bias. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14:502-518.
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McShea, D.W. 2001c. Parts and integration: consequences of hierarchy. In: Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record, J.B.C. Jackson, S. Lidgard, & F.K. McKinney, eds., pp. 27-60. Univ. Chicago Press.

McShea, D.W. 2001d. Evolutionary trends. In: Palaeobiology II. D.E.G. Briggs and P.R. Crowther, eds., pp. 206-210. Oxford: Blackwell.
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McShea, D.W. and E.P. Venit. 2001. What is a part? In: The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology. G.P. Wagner, ed., pp. 259-284. San Diego: Academic Press.
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Anderson, C., and D.W. McShea. 2001a. Individual versus social complexity, with particular reference to ant colonies. Biological Reviews (of the Cambridge Philosophical Society) 76: 211-237.
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Anderson, C. and D.W. McShea. 2001b. Intermediate-level parts in insect societies: adaptive structures that ants build away from the nest. Insectes Sociaux 48:291-301.

Ciampaglio, C.N., M. Kemp, and D.W. McShea. 2001. Detecting changes in morphospace occupation patterns in the fossil record: characterization and analysis of measures of disparity. Paleobiology 27:695-715.
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Anderson, C., N.R. Franks, and D.W. McShea. 2001. The complexity and hierarchical structure of tasks in insect societies. Animal Behaviour 62:643-651.

McShea, D.W. 2000a. Functional complexity in organisms: parts as proxies. Biology and Philosophy 15:641-668.
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McShea, D.W. 2000b. Trends, tools, and terminology. Paleobiology 26:330-333. 
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McShea, D.W. 2000c. A hypothesis about hierarchies. In: Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, Y. Bar-Yam, ed., pp. 45-52. Cambridge: Perseus Books.

McShea, D.W. 1999. Feelings as the proximate cause of behavior. In: Where Psychology Meets Biology: Philosophical Essays, V.G. Hardcastle, ed., pp. 181-200. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

McShea, R.J. and McShea, D.W. 1999. Biology and value theory. In: Biology and the Foundations of Ethics, J. Maienschein & M. Ruse, eds., pp. 307-327. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.

McShea, D.W. 1998a. Possible largest-scale trends in organismal evolution: eight live hypotheses. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29:293-318.
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McShea, D.W. 1998b. Dynamics of large-scale trends. In: Biodiversity Dynamics, M.L. McKinney & J.A. Drake, eds., pp. 91-108. NY: Columbia Univ. Press.

McShea, D.W. 1997. Complexity in evolution: A skeptical assessment. Philosophica 59:79-112.

McShea, D.W. 1996a. Metazoan complexity and evolution: Is there a trend? Evolution 50:477-492.
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McShea, D.W. 1996b. Complexity and homoplasy. In: Homoplasy: the Recurrence of Similarity in Evolution, M.J. Sanderson & L. Hufford, eds., pp. 207-225. San Diego: Academic Press.

McShea, D.W. 1994. Mechanisms of large-scale evolutionary trends. Evolution 48:1747-1763.
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McShea, D.W. 1993a. Arguments, tests, & the Burgess Shale: A commentary on the debate. Paleobiology 19:399-402.
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McShea, D.W. 1993b. Evolutionary change in the morphological complexity of the mammalian vertebral column. Evolution 47:730-740.
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McShea, D.W. 1992. A metric for the study of evolutionary trends in the complexity of serial structures. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 45:39-55.

McShea, D.W. 1991. Complexity and evolution: what everybody knows. Biology and Philosophy 6:303-324.

McShea, D.W. and D.M. Raup. 1986. Completeness of the geological record. Journal of Geology 94:569-574.

Papers Reprinted

McShea, D.W. 1998. Complexity and evolution: what everybody knows. Reprinted in: The Philosophy of Biology, D.L. Hull and M. Ruse, eds., Oxford Univ. Press. Originally published in Biology & Philosophy 6:303?324 (1991).

McShea, D.W. 2001. On the rights of an ape. Reprinted in Read, Reason, Write (6th edition), D.U. Seyler, McGraw Hill. (A textbook and anthology for writing students.) Originally published in Discover, February 1994.