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  1. Anderson, W.W., F.J. Ayala and R.E. Michod. 1977. Chromosomal and allozymic diagnosis of three species of Drosophila. J. of Heredity 68:71-74.
  2. Richards, J., R.E. Michod and J. Messer. 1978. Annotated bibliography. In The Recombinant DNA: Science, Ethics and Politics (J. Richards, ed.) pp. 337-364. Academic Press.
  3. Michod, R.E. 1979. Evolution of life histories in response to age-specific mortality factors. Am. Nat. 113:531-550. PDF download.
  4. Michod, R.E. and W.W. Anderson. 1979. Measures of genetic relationship and the concept of inclusive fitness. Am. Nat. 114:637-647. PDF Download.
  5. Michod, R.E. 1979. Genetical aspects of kin selection: effects of inbreeding. J. Theor. Biol. 81:223-233.
  6. Michod, R.E. and W.W. Anderson. 1980. On calculating demographic parameters from age frequency data. Ecology 61(2):265-269.
  7. Michod, R.E. 1980. Book Review of Theory of Population Genetics and Evolutionary Ecology: An Introduction by Jonathan Roughgarden. Quarterly Review of Biology. 55(1):69-70.
  8. Michod, R.E. and R. Abugov. 1980. Adaptive topography in family-structured models of kin selection. Science 210:667-669.
  9. Michod, R.E. 1980. Evolution in structured populations. Review of The Natural Selection of Populations and Communities by D.S. Wilson. Evolution 34:1034-1036.
  10. Michod, R.E. 1980. Evolution of interactions in family-structured populations: mixed mating models. Genetics 96:275-296.
  11. Michod, R.E. and W.D. Hamilton. 1980. Coefficients of relatedness in sociobiology. Nature 288:694-697.
  12. Michod, R.E. 1981. Positive heuristics in evolutionary biology. British J. Phil. Science 32:1-36.
  13. Bernstein, H., G.S. Byers and R.E. Michod. 1981. The evolution of sexual reproduction: the importance of DNA repair, complementation, and variation. Am. Nat. 117:537-549. PDF download.
  14. Abugov, R. and R.E. Michod. 1981. On the relation of family-structured models and inclusive fitness models for kin selection. J. Theor. Biol. 88:743-754.
  15. Michod, R.E. 1981. Book Review of Evolution in Age-Structured Populations by Brian Charlesworth. Science 212:154-155.
  16. Michod, R.E. 1982. The theory of kin selection. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 13:23-55.
  17. Michod, R.E. 1982. Book Review of The Genetics of Altruism by Boorman, S.A. and P.R. Levitt. J. Anim. Behaviour 30:308-309.
  18. Torro, M., R. Abugov, B. Charlesworth and R.E. Michod. 1982. Exact versus heuristic models of kin selection. J. Theor. Biol. 97-699-713.
  19. Brown, J.S., Sanderson, M. and R.E. Michod. 1982. Evolution of social behavior by reciprocation. J. Theor. Biol. 99:319-339. Reprinted as "Die evolution sozialen verhaltens durch reziprozität" in Evolution und Spieltheorie, 1990. H. Mueller (Ed.).
  20. Michod, R.E. 1983. Evolution of the First Replicators. Amer. Zool. 23:5-14.
  21. Sanderson, M. and R.E. Michod. 1983. Book Review of Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach by L. L. Cavall:-Sforza and M. Feldman. Animal Behavior 31:956-958.
  22. Bernstein, H., H. Byerly, F. Hopf, R.E. Michod and K. Vemulapalli. 1983. The Darwinian dynamic. Quart. Rev. Biol. 58:185-207.
  23. Michod, R.E. 1983. Book Review of The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as the Unit of Selection by Richard Dawkins. Am. Scientist. 71:525-526.
  24. Michod, R.E. 1984. Genetic constraints on adaptation, with special reference to social behavior. Pages 253-279 in P.W. Price, C.N. Slobodchikoff and W.S. Gaud (eds.) The New Ecology: Novel Approaches to Interactive Systems, Wiley, New York.
  25. Michod, R. E. 1984. Book review of Molecular Theory of Evolution by Bernd-Olaf Küppers. Quart. Rev. Biol. 59:171-172.
  26. Bernstein, H., H. Byerly, F. Hopf, R.E. Michod. 1984. Origin of Sex. J. Theor. Biol. 110:323-351.
  27. Bernstein, H., H. Byerly, F. Hopf, R.E. Michod. 1985. The evolutionary role of recombinational repair and sex. International Review of Cytology. 96:1-28.
  28. Bernstein, H., H. Byerly, F. Hopf, R.E. Michod. 1985. DNA damage, mutation and the evolution of sex. Science. 229:1277-1281.  PDF Download.
  29. Michod, R.E. and M. Sanderson. 1985. Behavioural structure and the evolution of social behavior. In P.J. Greenwood and M. Slatkin (eds.) Evolution - Essays in Honour of John Maynard Smith; Chapter 7, pp. 95-104. Cambridge University Press. PDF Download
  30. Bernstein, H., H. Byerly, F. Hopf, R.E. Michod. 1985. DNA repair and complementation: the major factors in the origin and maintenance of sex. sex. In H.O. Halvorson, E. Adelberg, N. Zinder (Eds.). Origin and Evolution of Sex, pp.29-45. Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York.
  31. Bernstein, H., H. Byerly, F. Hopf, R.E. Michod. 1985. Sex and the emergence of species. J. Theor. Biol.. 117:665-690.
  32. Michod, R. E. 1986. On adaptedness and fitness and their role in evolutionary explanation. J. History Biology. 19:289-302.
  33. Bernstein, H., F. Hopf, R.E. Michod. 1987. Molecular basis of sex. Advances in Genetics. Volume 24, pp. 323-361. (PDF)
  34. Michod, R. E. 1987. Book review of Origins of Sex by L. Margulis and D. Sagan. American Scientist. 75:536-537.
  35. Bernstein, H., F. Hopf, R.E. Michod. 1988. Is meiotic recombination an adaptation for repairing DNA, producing genetic variation, or both? In Michod, R. E. and B. R. Levin (editors) Evolution of Sex: An Examination of Current Ideas Sinauer Associates.
  36. Michod, R. E. and B. Levin (editors). 1988. Evolution of Sex: An Examination of Current Ideas. Sinauer Associates.
  37. Michod, R. E., M. F. Wojciechowski, and M. A. Hoelzer. 1988. DNA repair and the evolution of transformation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Genetics 118:31-39.
  38. Hopf, F., R. E. Michod, M. J. Sanderson. 1988. The effect of reproductive system on mutation load. Theor. Popul. Biol. 33:243-265.
  39. Bernstein, H., F. Hopf, R.E. Michod. 1989. The role of DNA repair in sexual reproduction, pp. 3-18, In Rasa, C. Vogel and E. Voland (eds.) Sociobiology of Reproductive Strategies in Animals and Man. Chapman and Hall. London, England.
  40. Michod, R. E. 1989. What's love got to do with it? The solution to one of evolution's greatest riddles. The Sciences, May/June.
  41. Wojciechowski, M. F. , M. A. Hoelzer, R. E. Michod. 1989. DNA repair and the evolution of transformation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. II: Role of Inducible Repair. Genetics. 121:411-422.
  42. Michod, R. E. 1989. Darwinian selection in the brain. Book review of Neural Darwinism The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection by G. M. Edelman. Evolution 43: 694-696. (PDF)
  43. Michod, R. E., M. F. Wojciechowski, and M. A. Hoelzer. 1989. Origin of sex in prokaryotes. In M. Clegg and S. Clark (editors) Molecular Evolution, UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, New Series, Volume 122. (PDF)
  44. Michod, R. E. 1990. Evolution of sex (letter to the editor, Reply to Brian Charlesworth). Trends Ecol. Evol 5:30.
  45. Michod, R. E. 1990. Neural Edelmanism (letter to the editor, Reply to Francis Crick). Trends Neurosci. 13:12-13.
  46. Michod, R. E. 1990. Sex as a conservative force in evolution. Chapter 18, pages 235-251, in Organizational Constraints on the Dynamics of Evolution, J. Maynard Smith and G. Vida (Eds.), Proceedings in Nonlinear Science, Theory and Applications, Manchester University.
  47. Michod, R. E. and O. Hasson. 1990. On the evolution of informational cues based on fitness. Am. Nat. 135: 788-808. PDF Download.
  48. Gayley, T. and R. E. Michod. 1990. Modification of of genetic constraints to frequency-dependent selection. Am. Nat. 136:406-427. PDF Download.
  49. Byerly, H. C. and R. E. Michod. 1991. Fitness and Evolutionary Explanation. Biology and Philosophy 6, 1-22.
  50. Byerly, H. C. and R. E. Michod. 1991. Fitness and Evolutionary Explanation: A Response. Biology and Philosophy 6, 45-53.
  51. Michod. 1991. Sex and evolution. Pages 285-320 in 1990 Lectures in Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lect. Vol III, Eds Lynn Nadel and Daniel Stein, Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley.
  52. Hoelzer, M. A. and R. E. Michod. 1991. DNA repair and the evolution of transformation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. III: Sex with damaged DNA. Genetics 128:215-223.
  53. Michod, R. E. and T. Gayley. 1992. Masking of mutations and the evolution of sex. Am. Nat. 139: 706-734. PDF Download.
  54. Hudson, R. and R. E. Michod. 1992. DNA Trasformation, Evolution. The Encyclopedia of Microbiology J. Lederberg (Ed.). Academic Press, Inc. Orlando, Florida.
  55. Michod, R. E. 1993. Inbreeding and the evolution of social behavior. N. Wilmsen Thornhill and W. M. Shields (eds.), The Natural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, The Univ. of Chicago Press.
  56. Michod, R. E. 1993. Biology and the origin of values. In The Origin of Values (eds. Hechtor, M., L. Nadel, R. E. Michod), Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne, N.Y.
  57. Hechtor, M., L. Nadel, R. E. Michod (editors). 1993. The Origin of Values, Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne, N.Y. 342 pp.
  58. Michod, R. E. 1993. Genetic error, sex, and diploidy. Journal of Heredity. 84:360-371. (PDF)
  59. Michod, R. E. and M. F. Wojciechowski. 1994. DNA repair and the evolution of transformation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. IV. DNA damage increases transformation. J. Evol. Bio. 7:147-175. (PDF)
  60. Michod, R. E. and T. Gayley. 1994. Genetic error, heterozygosity and the evolution of the sexual life cycle. In Some mathematical questions in biology: Evolution of Haploid and Diploid Life Cycles, Lectures on Mathematics and the Life Sciences. 25:97-119. American Mathematical Society. (PDF)
  61. Michod, R. E. 1994. Book Review of Ecological Genetics, L. A. Real (Ed.). Science 266:468-469.
  62. Long, A. and R. E. Michod. 1995. Origin of sex for error repair. I. Sex, diploidy and haploidy. Theor. Popul. Biol. 47:18-55. (PDF)
  63. Michod, R. E. and A. Long. 1995. Origin of sex for error repair. II. Rarity and extreme environments. Theor. Popul. Biol. 46:56-81. (PDF)
  64. Ferriere, R. and R. E. Michod. 1995. Invading wave of cooperation in spatial iterated prisoner's dilemma. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 259:77-83.
  65. Michod, R. E. 1995. Eros and Evolution: A Natural Philosophy of Sex. Addison-Wesley Publishing, 241pp.
  66. Ferriere, R. and R. E. Michod. 1996. Evolution of cooperation in spatially heterogeneous populations. Am. Nat. 147:692-717. (PDF).
  67. Michod, R. E. 1996. Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of individuality. II. Conflict mediation. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon. B. 263:813-822. (PDF)
  68. Michod, R. E. 1997. Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of individuality. I. Multi-level selection of the organism. Am. Nat. 149: 607-645. (PDF).
  69. Michod, R. E. 1997. Evolution of the individual. Am. Nat. 150:S5-S21. (PDF).
  70. Michod, R. E. and D. Roze. 1997 Transitions in individuality. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon. B. 264:853-857.
  71. Michod, R. E. 1997. What good is sex? The Sciences. September/October 37:42-46.
  72. Michod, R. E. 1998. Origin of sex for error repair. III. Selfish Sex. Theor. Popul. Biol. 53:60-74. (PDF)
  73. Michod, R.E. 1998. Commentary, evolution of individuality. J. evol. Biol. 11:225-227.
  74. Michod, R. E. 1998. The evolution of sex (reply to letter from reader). The Sciences 38:47-48.
  75. R. Ferriere and R. E. Michod. 1998. The analysis of wave patterns predicts cooperation in spatially distributed populations. In: Advances in Adaptive Dynamics, edited by U. Dieckmann and J. A. J. Metz, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  76. Michod, R. E. and Roze, D. 1999. Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of individuality. III. Transitions in the unit of fitness. Pages 47-91 in Mathematical and Computational Biology: Computational Morphogenesis, Hierarchical Complexity, and Digital Evolution, edited by C.L. Nehaniv. Lectures on Mathematics in the Life Sciences, vol. 26. American Mathematical Society. (PDF file)
  77. Michod, R. E. 1999. Darwinian Dynamics, Evolutionary Transitions in Fitness and Individuality. Princeton Univ. Press.
  78. Michod, R. E. 1999. Individuality, immortality and sex. Pages 53-74 in Keller, L. (Ed.). Levels of selection in evolution. Princeton University Press. 
  79. Ferriere, R. and R. E. Michod. 2000. Wave patterns in spatial games and the evolution of cooperation. In: The geometry of ecological interactions. Simplifying spatial complexity, edited by U. Dieckmann, R. Law, and J. A. J. Metz, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 318-335. (PDF)
  80. Michod, R. E. and D. Roze. 2000. Some aspects of reproductive mode and the origin of multicellularity. Selection 1:133-145. (PDF)
  81. Michod, R. E. and D. Roze. 2001. Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of multicellularity. Heredity 81:1-7. (PDF)
  82. Roze, D. and R. E. Michod. 2001. Mutation load, multi-level selection and the evolution of propagule size during the origin of multicellularity. The American Naturalist. 158:638-654. (PDF )
  83. Michod, R. E., A. M. Nedelcu, and D. Roze. 2003. Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of individuality IV. Conflict mediation and evolvability in Volvox carteri. BioSystems 69:95-114. (PDF).
  84. Nedelcu, A. and R. E. Michod. 2003. Evolvability, modularity, and individuality during the transition to multicellularity in volvocalean green algae. Page 00 in G.Schlosser and G. Wagner, eds. Modularity in development and evolution. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago. (PDF)
  85. Michod R.E., Nedelcu A.M. (2003). Cooperation and conflict during the unicellular-multicellular and prokaryotic-eukaryotic transitions. In Evolution: From molecules to ecosystems. Moya A., Font E. eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 195-208. (PDF)
  86. Michod R.E. (2003). Cooperation and conflict mediation during the origin of multicellularity. In Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation. Hammerstein P. ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pp. 261-307. (PDF)
  87. Michod R.E., Nedelcu A.M. (2003). On the reorganization of fitness during evolutionary transitions in individuality. Integr. Comp. Biol. 43, 64-73. (PDF)
  88. Lachmann, M., N. W. Blackstone, D. Haig, A. Kowald, R. E. Michod, E. Szathmáry, J. H. Werren, and L. Wolpert. 2003. Group Report: Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of genomes, cells, and multicellular organisms. Pages 327-356 in P.Hammerstein, ed. Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
  89. Michod, R. E. 2003. Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of complexity. In H.Lipson, E.K.Antonsson, and J.R.Koza, eds. Computational Synthesis: From basic building blocks to high level functionality. AAAI Press, Stanford, CA. (PDF)
  90. Solari, C., A. Nedelcu, and R. E. Michod. 2004. Fitness and the evolution of complexity in Volvocalean green algae. In H.Lipson, E.K.Antonsson, and J.R.Koza, eds. Computational Synthesis, From basic building blocks to high level functionality. AAAI Press, Stanford, CA. (PDF)
  91. Nedelcu A.M., Michod R.E. 2003. Sex as a response to oxidative stress: The effect of antioxidants on sexual induction in a facultatively sexual lineage. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (Suppl. ) 270, S136-S139. (PDF)
  92. Solari, C., A. Nedelcu, and R. E. Michod. Fitness, life-history and the evolution of complexity in Volvocalean green algae. Unpublished ms. (PDF)
  93. Nedelcu A.M., Marcu O. and Michod R.E. 2004. Sex as a response to oxidative stress: a two-fold increase in cellular reactive oxygen species activates sex genes. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 271:1591-1596 (PDF)
  94. Michod, R. E. 2005. John Maynard Smith. Annual Review of Genetics. 39:1-8 (PDF).
  95. Michod, R. E. 2005. On the transfer of fitness from the cell to the multicellular organism. Biology and Philosophy. 20:967-987 (PDF).
  96. Michod, R.E., Y. Viossat, C. A. Solari, A. M. Nedelcu, and M. Hurrand. (2006) Life history evolution and the origin of multicellularity. J. Theor. Bio. 239:257-272. (PDF)
  97. Solari, C.A., J. O. Kessler, and R. E. Michod. 2006. A hydrodynamics approach to the evolution of multicellularity: Flagellar motility and cell differentiation in volvocalean green algae. American Naturalist. 167:537-554. (PDF). Receipient of the President's Award Paper of the Year in American Naturalist for 2006.
  98. Solari, C. A., S. Ganguly, J. O. Kessler, R. E. Michod, and R. E. Goldstein. 2006. Multicellularity and the functional interdependence of motility and molecular transport. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 103:1353-1358. (PDF)
  99. Michod, R.E. 2006. The group covariance effect and fitness trade-offs during evolutionary transitions. PNAS, USA. 103:9113-9117.(PDF)
  100. Nedelcu A.M., Michod R.E. 2006. The evolutionary origin of an altruistic gene in Volvox carteri. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 8:1460-1464. (PDF)
  101. Michod R.E., Herron M.D. 2006. Cooperation and conflict during evolutionary transitions in individuality. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.19:1406-1409. (PDF)
  102. Michod, R.E. 2007. Evolution of individuality during the transition from unicellular to multicellular life. PNAS, USA. 104: 8613-8618. (PDF)
  103. Michod, R.E. 2007. Evolution of individuality during the transition from unicellular to multicellular life. In: In the light of evolution: Volume 1. Adaptation and complex design, edited by J. C. Avise and F. J. Ayala, Washington, D.C.:The National Academies Press, p. 129-144.
  104. Michod, R.E. H. Bernstein, and A. M. Nedelcu. 2008. Adaptive value of sex in microbial pathogens. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 8:267–285. (PDF)
  105. Herron, M.D. and R. E. Michod. 2008. Evolution of complexity in the volvocine algae: transitions in individuality through Darwin's eye. Evolution. 62-2: 436–451. (PDF)
  106. Soari, C. A., Michod, R. E. and R. E. Goldstein. 2008. Volvox barberi, the fastest swimmer of the volvocales (chlorophyceae). J. Phycol. 44, 1395–1398. (PDF)
  107. Michod R.E. 2009. Social evolution and sex: Cooperation and conflict from molecules to societies. In Aux origines du sexe. Edited by A. Civard-Racinais and P. H. Gouyon. Paris:Fayard. In press.
  108. Michod, R.E. 2009. Sex and multicellularity as evolutionary transitions in individuality. In: Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited, edited by K. Sterelny and B. Calcott, Altenberg, Austria:Konrad Lorenz Institute.
  109. Shelton,D.E. and R.E. Michod. 2009. Philosophical foundations for the hierarchy of life (Book review of Evolution and the Levels of Selection by Samir Okasha). Biology and Philosophy, In press.
  110. Herron, M.D., J.D. Hackett, F.O. Aylward and R.E. Michod. 2009. Triassic origin and early radiation of multicellular volvocine algae. PNAS, USA. Early Edition. (PDF)
  111. Michod, R.E. 2009. Sex and multicellularity as evolutionary transitions in individuality. In: Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited, edited by K. Sterelny and B. Calcott, Altenberg, Austria:Konrad Lorenz Institute.
  112. Michod R.E. 2009. Socialite et sexe : Coopération et conflit : des molécules aux sociétés. In Aux origines du sexe. Edited by A. Civard-Racinais and P. H. Gouyon. Paris:Fayard. In press.
  113. Shelton, D. E. and R. E. Michod. (In press). Philosophical foundations for the hierarchy of life (Book review of Evolution and the Levels of Selection by Samir Okasha). Biology and Philosophy.
  114. Solari C.A., Ganguly S., Kessler J.O., Michod R.E., and Goldstein R.E. Phenotypic plasticity of flagellar motility in Volvox due to changes in nutrient concentration. (submitted).
  115. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, submitted. Herron, M. D., A. G. Desnitskiy, and R. E. Michod. (submitted). Evolution of developmental programs in Volvox (Chlorophyta).J. Phycol.
  116. Michod, R.E. 2010. Sociality and sex: Cooperation and conflict from molecules to societies. In. Michod, R.E. and M.D. Herron (eds). CoS Evolution lectures.
  117. Michod, R.E. and M.D. Herron. 2010. (eds) CoS Evolution lectures.