Endless Forms Most Beautiful. Sean B. Carroll. (2005, W. W. Norton.) ISBN 0-393-06016-0. - Douglas H. Erwin (Artif. Life, 2007)

Prospects for a General Theory of Evolutionary Novelty. - Douglas H. Erwin (J. Comput. Biol., 2019)

Tempos and modes of collectivity in the history of life. - Douglas H. Erwin (Theory Biosci., 2021)

Computational foundations of the human world. - Marcus J. Hamilton; Abhishek Yadav; Harrison Hartle; Jan Korbel; Niels Kornerup; Andrew J. Stier; Douglas H. Erwin; Hyejin Youn; Christopher P. Kempes; Hajime Shimao; Kyle Harper; James Evans; et al. (CoRR, 2026)