Publications
Quantifying collectivity." Current Opinion in Neurobiology 37 (2016): 106-113.
"Criticality Distinguishes the Ensemble of Biological Regulatory Networks." Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, no. 13 (2018).
"Control of finite critical behaviour in a small-scale social system." Nature Communications 8 (2017).
"Don't judge species on their origins." Nature 474 (2011).
" "Call to Reshape University Curricula." Nature 467 (2010): 788.
"The Mechanistic Conception of Life, by Jacques Loeb In Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030, 2010.
"Further Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis and the Nature of the Process of Fertilization" In Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030, 2009.
The Organism as a Whole: From a Physicochemical Viewpoint, by Jacques Loeb In Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030, 2010.
"Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis in Annelids (Chaetopterus) and the Nature of the Process of Fertilization" In Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030, 2009.
Julius von Sachs (1832-1897) In Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030, 2010.
Jacques Loeb In Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030, 2009.
"On the Nature of the Process of Fertilization and the Artificial Production of Normal Larvae (Plutei) From the Unfertilized Eggs of the Sea Urchin," by Jacques Loeb In Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030, 2010.
"Mechanistic Science and Metaphysical Romance" by Jacques Loeb In Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN: 1940-5030, 2009.
Trying to Understand History. Stephen Jay Gould: an Intellectual Biography." Studies in the History of Biology (2013).
"A partire da De Beer…." In La Creatività del Tempo (working title). Milano: Unicopli, 2013.
"Between epigenetic research and politic commitment: Marcello Buiatti’s portrait." Studies in the History of Biology (2013).
"Alle origini delle specie: embrioni (e uova). Milano: Mimesis, 2011.
Ontogenesi, Filogenesi. Storia di una." In La Creatività del Tempo (working title). Milano: Unicopli, 2013.
"Intersezioni fra Biologia dello Sviluppo ed Ecosistemica. Nuove Prospettive per l’Evoluzione." Paradigmi (2016).
"Ontogeny and Phylogeny, ovvero lo strano caso di un libro fuori moda." In Grazie brontosauro!. Pisa: {ETS}, 2012.
"Review: Beretta, Marco, Citti, Francesco, and Pasetti, Lucia (eds.), Seneca e Le Scienze Naturali. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2012. Pp vi + 273. ISBN 978-8822-261982. €29 (paperback)." British Journal for the History of Science (2013).
"Studies in the History of Biology." On the Convergence of Ontogeny and Phylogeny into the Evo-Devo Theory (2012): 26-37.
"Relatedness: Capturing Cohesion in Biological Systems." Biological Theory 1 (2006): 416-419.
"Reflections on the Role of Organismal and Cultural Variation in the History of the Biological Sciences." Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (2001): 1-29.
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