Agency in Reproduction

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dc.contributor.authorNuño De La Rosa García, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-16T11:15:00Z
dc.date.available2024-05-16T11:15:00Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-26
dc.description2023 Acuerdos transformativos CRUE
dc.description.abstractWhile niche construction theory and developmental approaches to evolution have brought to the front the active role of organisms as ecological and developmental agents, respectively, the role of agents in reproduction has been widely neglected by organismal perspectives of evolution. This paper addresses this problem by proposing an agential view of reproduction and shows that such a perspective has implications for the explanation of the origin of modes of reproduction, the evolvability of reproductive modes, and the coevolution between reproduction and social behavior. After introducing the two prevalent views of agency in evolutionary biology, namely those of organismal agency and selective agency, I contrast these two perspectives as applied to the evolution of animal reproduction. Taking eutherian pregnancy as a case study, I wonder whether organismal approaches to agency forged in the frame of niche construction and developmental plasticity theories can account for the goal-directed activities involved in reproductive processes. I conclude that the agential role of organisms in reproduction is irreducible to developmental and ecological agency, and that reproductive goals need to be included into our definitions of organismal agency. I then explore the evolutionary consequences of endorsing an agential approach to reproduction, showing how such an approach might illuminate our understanding of the evolutionary origination and developmental evolvability of reproductive modes. Finally, I analyze recent studies on the coevolution between viviparity and social behavior in vertebrates to suggest that an agential notion of reproduction can provide unforeseen links between developmental and ecological agency.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Lógica y Filosofía Teórica
dc.description.facultyFac. de Filosofía
dc.description.fundingtypeAPC financiada por la UCM
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.description.statuspub
dc.identifier.citationNuño de la Rosa, L. (2023) «Agency in Reproduction», Evolution and Development, 25(6), pp. 418-429. Disponible en: https://doi.org/10.1111/EDE.12440.
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/ede.12440
dc.identifier.essn1525-142X
dc.identifier.issn1520-541X
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://doi.org/10.1111/ede.12440
dc.identifier.pmid37243316
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ede.12440
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttps://produccioncientifica.ucm.es/documentos/656c71df29159508cf238ce6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104097
dc.issue.number6
dc.journal.titleEvolution & Development
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final429
dc.page.initial418
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.cdu001.1
dc.subject.cdu575
dc.subject.keywordBiological evolution
dc.subject.keywordDevelopmental biology
dc.subject.keywordEvo-devo
dc.subject.ucmFilosofía de la Ciencia
dc.subject.unesco7205 Filosofía de la Ciencia
dc.titleAgency in Reproduction
dc.title.alternativeLa agencialidad en la reproducción
dc.typejournal article
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dc.volume.number25
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