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  1. Leventhal, S., Edie, Stewart M., Morrison, R., Simpson, C., 2024. Origin of division of labor is decoupled from polymorphism in colonial animals. PNAS Nexus 3(11) pgae476. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae476

  2. Simpson, C., Halling, A., and Leventhal, S., 2024. Levels of selection and macroevolution in organisms, colonies, and species. Paleobiology. pp 1-9.

  3. Halling, A., Goodson, B., Hirschmann, A., Wing, B. A., and Simpson, C., 2024. Experimental Snowball Earth Viscosity Drives the Evolution of Motile Multicellularity. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.06.579218

  4. Crockett, W.W., Shaw, J.O., Simpson, C., and Kemps, C.P. 2023. Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity. Proc B 291: 20232767 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2767

  5. Leventhal, S., Stowe, K., and Simpson, C., 2023. Early proliferation of avicularia in the Cretaceous cheilostome bryozoan Wilbertopora: a diversification event guided by ecological exploration. In: Bryozoan Studies 2022: Proceedings Of The Nineteenth International Bryozoology Association Conference (Dublin, Ireland, 22-26 August 2022) (1st ed.), (Eds, Key, M. M., Porter, J., S., & Wyse Jackson, P. N. ). CRC Press. doi.org/10.1201/9781003454915-10

  6. Simpson, C. (2023) Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology edited by Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt. The Quarterly Review of Biology 2023 98:2, 88-88

  7. Trower, E. J., Gutoski, J. R., Wala, V. T., Mackey, T. J., & Simpson, C. (2023). Tonian low-latitude marine ecosystems were cold before Snowball Earth. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101903. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101903

  8. Simpson, C., 2023. Coming together to understand multicellularity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.01.007

  9. Miller, J.H. and Simpson, C., 2022. When did mammoths go extinct? Nature 612, E1–E3. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05416-3

  10. Leventhal, S., Jamison-Todd, S., and Simpson, C., 2022. Aggregate Trait Evolvability and Macroevolution in Two Sister Species of the Bryozoan Stylopoma, Evolutionary Biology. doi.org/10.1007/s11692-022-09588-8

  11. Simpson, C. and J. B. C. Jackson, 2022. Bryozoan Revelations, Science Advances. 8 (13), eabp9344. dooi:10.1126/sciadv.abp9344

  12. Leslie, A.B., Simpson, C., and Mander, L. 2021. Pulsed rise in plant complexity linked to reproductive innovations. Science 373: 1368–1372. doi.org/10.1126/science.abi6984

  13. Simpson, C. 2021. Adaptation to a viscous Snowball Earth Ocean as a path to complex multicellularity. American Naturalist. 198:5. doi.org/10.1086/716634

  14. Laurel Sky Hiebert, Leandro M. Vieira, Stefano Tiozzo, Carl Simpson, Richard K. Grosberg, Alvaro E. Migotto, Andre C. Morandini, Federico D. Brown Simpson, C. (2021) From the individual to the colony: marine invertebrates as models to understand levels of biological organization. J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol).

  15. Simpson, C. 2020. An ecological driver for the macroevolution of morphological polymorphism within colonial invertebrates. J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol). DOI: 10.1002/(ISSN)1552-5015

  16. Hiebert, LS, Simpson, C, Tiozzo, S. 2020. Coloniality, clonality, and modularity in animals: The elephant in the room. J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol). 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.22944

  17. Simpson, C., A Herrera-Cubilla, and J.B.C Jackson. 2020. How colonial animals evolve. Science Advances 6 : eaaw9530

  18. Simpson, C. 2018. Serving up light. Current Biology 28(16): R873-R875

  19. Hopkins, M. J., D. W. Bapst, C. Simpson, R. C. M. Warnock, 2018. The inseparability of sampling and time and its influence on attempts to unify the molecular and fossil records. Paleobiology, 44(4): 561-574. doi:10.1017/pab.2018.27

  20. Simpson, C. 2017. The measurement of species selection on evolving characters. bioRχiv. http://doi.org/10.1101/176438

  21. Simpson, C. 2017. The case for species selection. bioRχiv doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/084046

  22. Simpson, C., Jackson, J. B. C., Herrera-Cubilla, A. 2017. Evolutionary determinants of morphological polymorphism in colonial animals. American Naturalist 190(1):17-28. Preprint available at bioRχiv doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/046409

  23. Simpson, C. 2016. Understanding macroevolution through the origin of higher taxa. Ecology, 97: 3246–3248. doi:10.1002/ecy.1550

  24. Soreghan, G.S., Heavens, N.G., Hinnov,L.A., Aciego, S.M., and Simpson, C.. 2015. Reconstructing the dust cycle in deep time: The case of the late Paleozoic icehouse. In, Earth-Life Transitions: Paleobiology in the context of Earth System Evolution. P. David Polly, Jason J. Head, and David L. Fox, editors. The Paleontological Society Papers volume 21. pp. 83 - 120

  25. Orzechowski, E.A., R. Lockwood, J.E. Byrnes, S.C. Anderson, S. Finnegan, Z.V. Finkel, P.G. Harnik, D.R. Lindberg, L.H. Liow, H.K. Lotze, C.R. McClain, J.L. McGuire, A. O’Dea, J.M. Pandolfi, C. Simpson, D.P. Tittensor. Marine extinction risk shaped by trait-environment interactions over 500 million years. 2015. Global Change Biology. 21(10): 3595–3607. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12963

  26. Finnegan, S., Anderson, S.C., Harnik P.G., Simpson, C., Tittensor, D.P., Byrnes, J.E., Finkel, Z.V., Lindberg, D.R., Liow, L.H., Lockwood, R. Lotze, H.K., McClain, C.M., McGuire, J.L., O’Dea, A., Pandolfi, J.M. (2015) Paleontological baselines for evaluating extinction risk in the modern oceans. Science. 348(6234): 567-570. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa6635

  27. Simpson, C. and Erwin, D.H., 2014. Enriching macroevolution. Science. 344(6189): 1234-1235.

  28. Hopkins, M., Simpson, C., and Kiessling, W., 2014. Differential niche dynamics among major marine invertebrate clades. Ecology Letters. 17(3):314-323. doi: 10.1111/ele.12232.

  29. Nowak, M. D., Smith, A. B., Simpson, C., and Zwickl, D. J. 2013. A Simple Method for Estimating Informative Node Age Priors for the Fossil Calibration of Molecular Divergence Time Analyses. PLoS ONE 8(6): e66245. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066245.

  30. Simpson, C. 2013. Species selection and the macroevolution of coral photosymbiosis and coloniality. Evolution 67(6): 1607-1621 doi://10.1111/evo.12083

  31. Kiessling, W., Simpson, C., Beck, B., Mewis, H. & Pandolfi, J. 2012. Equatorial decline of reef corals during the last Pleistocene interglacial. PNAS. 109(52): 21378-21383. doi:10.1073/pnas.1214037110

  32. Harnik, P. G., Simpson, C., & Payne, J. L. 2012. Long-term differences in extinction risk among the seven forms of rarity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1902

  33. Harnik, P. G., Lotze, H., Anderson, S. C., Finkel, Z. V. Finnegan, S., Lindberg, D. L., Liow, L. H., Lockwood, R., McClain, C. M., McGuire, J. L., O’Dea, A., Pandolfi, J. M., Simpson, C., Tittensor, D. 2012. Extinctions in ancient and modern seas. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 27(11) 608-617. doi://10.1016/j.tree.2012.07.010

  34. Simpson, C., Müller, J., 2012. Species selection in the molecular age, in From clone to bone: the synergy of morphological and molecular tools in paleobiology, Johannes Müller and Rob Asher, eds. Cambridge University Press. p. 116-134.

  35. Simpson, C. 2012. The evolutionary history of division of labour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences. 279(1726): 116-121. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0766.

  36. Simpson, C., Kiessling, W., Mewis, H., Baron-Szabo, R. C. & Müller, J. 2011. Evolutionary diversification of reef corals: a comparison of the molecular and fossil records. Evolution. 65(11) 3274–3284. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01365.x

  37. Liow, Lee Hsiang, Carl Simpson, Frédéric Bouchard, John Damuth, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Gene Hunt, Daniel W. McShea, Jeffery Powell, Nils Christian Stenseth, Melissa Stoller & Gunter Wagner. 2011. Pioneering Paradigms and Magnificent Manifestos – Leigh Van Valen’s priceless contributions to evolutionary biology. Evolution. 65(4) 917-922. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01242.x

  38. Simpson, C. 2011. How many levels are there? How insights from evolutionary transitions in individuality help measure the hierarchical complexity of life. In, The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited, Brett Calcott & Kim Sterelny eds. MIT Press.

  39. McShea, D. W. & Simpson, C. 2011. The Miscellaneous Transitions in Evolution. In, The Major Transitions Revisited, Brett Calcott & Kim Sterelny eds. MIT Press.

  40. Kiessling, W. & Simpson, C. 2011 On the potential for ocean acidification to be a general cause of ancient reef crises. Global Change Biology. 17(1): 56 - 67. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02204.x

  41. Simpson, C. & Kiessling, W. 2010. The diversity of life through time. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester.

  42. Simpson, C. & Kiessling, W. 2010 The role of extinction in large-scale diversity-stability relationships. Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences 277(1686): 1451-1456.

  43. Simpson, C. 2010 Species selection and driven mechanisms jointly generate a large-scale morphological trend in monobathrid crinoids. Paleobiology 36(3): 481-496.

  44. Kiessling, W., Simpson, C. & Foote, M. 2010 Reefs as Cradles of Evolution and Sources of Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic. Science 327(5962): 196-198.

  45. Simpson, C. & Harnik, P. G. 2009 Assessing the role of abundance in marine bivalve extinction over the post-Paleozoic. Paleobiology 35(4): 631–647.

  46. Alroy, J., Aberhan, M., Bottjer, D., Foote, M., Fürsich, F. T., Harries, P. J., Hendy, A. J. W., Holland, S., Ivany, L. C., Kiessling, W., Kosnik, M. A., Marshall, C. R., McGowan, A. J., Miller, A., Olszewski, T. D., Patzkowsky, M., Peters, S. E., Villier, L., Wagner, P., Bonuso, N., Borkow, P. S., Brenneis, B., Clapham, M. E., Fall, L. M., Ferguson, C. A., Hanson, V. L., Krug, A. Z., Layou, K. M., Leckey, E. H., Nürnberg, S., Powers, C. M., Sessa, J. A., Simpson, C., Tomašových, A. & Visaggi, C. C. 2008 Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates. Science 321(5885), 97-100.

  47. Sánchez, J. A., Lasker, H. R., Zeng, W., Coluci, V. & Simpson, C. 2003 How similar are branching networks in nature? A view from the ocean: Caribbean gorgonian corals. Journal of Theoretical Biology 222, 135-138.