Published / In Press


Peer Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters
  1. Lynch K.E., et al. Explicit value trade-offs in conservation: integrating animal welfare. (2025) Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Accepted 27/03/25.
  2. Ritsaart, R., Lynch, K.E., Gawronski, S.A., Sun, C., Griffiths, P.E. (2025) A text-analytic approach to the use of genetic essentialist biases in the Australian Media. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Accepted 22/02/25.
  3.  Lane, A.S., Lynch, K.E., Arnold, M., Dar-Nimrod, I., Morandini, J., Gawronski, S.A., Griffiths, P.E. The undue influence of genetic information on medical students’ treatment decisions. BMC Medical Education( preprint) 
  4. Nacko, S., Hall, M.A., Gloag, R., Lynch, K.E., Spooner-Hart, R., Cook, J., Riegler, M. forthcoming. Survival during heat events and variation of thermal tolerance across climate classes in Australian stingless bees. Journal of Thermal Biology.
  5. Van Dooren, et al. (2023) The ethics of intervening in animal behaviour for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. (this research was featured in the LA Times and The Conversation)
  6. ​​Serpico, D., Lynch K.E., Porter, T. (2023) 'New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 97: 29-33
  7. Kemp, D.J., Lynch, K.E. and St-Jean, S. (2022) Variation in the level of boldness behaviour across individuals, sexes, and strains of the guppy Poecilia reticulata" Marine and Freshwater Research
  8. Lynch, K.E. (2021) The Meaning of Cause in Genetics. Cold Spring Harbour Perspectives in Medicine, a0405019. Eds. George Davey Smith, Rebecca Richmond and Jean-Baptiste Pingault. A0405019.
  9. Lynch, K.E.  and Blumstein D.T. (2020) 'The hidden ethical costs of conservation'. Science, 370:6513, 179-180.
  10. Dar-Nimrod, I., Kuntzman, R., MacNevin, G., Lynch, K.E., Woods, M., and Morandini, J. ((2020) Genetic essentialism: The mediating role of essentialist biases on the relationship between genetic knowledge and the interpretations of genetic information. European Journal of Medical Genetics. 64(1), 104119
  11. Lynch, K.E.  and Blumstein D.T. (2020) 'Effective Conservation'  ​Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 35(10), 857-859
  12. Lynch, K.E., Parke, E, O'Malley M.  (2019) 'How Causal are Microbiomes? A Comparison with the Helicobacter pylori Explanation of Ulcers' Biology and Philosophy (target article for peer commentary), 34: 62. Commentaries on the article can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  13. Lynch, K.E., Parke, E, O'Malley M. (2020) 'Microbiome causality: further reflections', (a response to commentaries). Biology and Philosophy, 34(6) 1-24. 
  14. O’Neill, S.J., White, T.E., Lynch, K.E, and Kemp, D.J (2019) 'Male guppies differ in display rate but not diel pattern of display under daily light changes' Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73(11), 157
  15. ​Dar-Nimrod, I., MacNevin, G., Godwin, A., Lynch, K.E., Magory Cohen, T., Morandini, J.  (2019) ‘Genetic literacy within a national Australian sample: comparisons with other diverse populations. Public Health Genomics, 1-11
  16. Lynch, K.E., White, T.E., Kemp, D.J. (2018) ‘The effect of long-term captive breeding upon adult thermal preference in the Queensland Fruit Fly (Bactrocera tryoni)’. Journal of Thermal Biology, 78 290-297
  17. Lynch, K.E., Morandini, J. Dar-Nimrod, I. Griffiths, P. (2018) ‘Causal Reasoning about Genetics: Synthesis and Future Directions’. Behavior Genetics. 49(2), 221-234
  18. ​Lynch, K.E. and Bourrat, P. (2017) ‘Interpreting Heritability Causally’ Philosophy of Science, 84(1) 14-34
  19. Lynch, K.E. (2017) ‘Heritability and Causal Reasoning’ Biology & Philosophy, 32(1) 25-49.
  20. Lynch, K.E. and Kemp, D.J. (2014) ‘Nature-via-nurture and unravelling causality in evolutionary genetics’. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 29(1) 2-5.

Peer Reviewed Commentaries & Reviews
   21. Lynch, K.E., Strasser, J., Long, S., Brown, R.L. (forthcoming) Two disanalogies with RCTs and their implications for second generation causal knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 
   22. Lynch, K.E.  and Blumstein D.T. (2020) 'Conflicts and Triage'  ​Animal Sentience, 27(24)
​​   23. Blumstein D.T.  and Lynch, K.E. (2020) 'Innovative yes, but is it rewilding?' Animal Sentience, 28(8)  ​  
   24. ​Lynch, K.E.  (2019) ‘Why microbes not microbiomes are better causal explanations in gut-brain research.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e76

Reference Works
   25. Lynch, K.E. ‘Effective Conservation Framework’ forthcoming The Integrative Conservation Clinic.
   26. Lynch, K.E. (2019)' Gut Microbiome' In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2782-1
   27. Lynch, K.E.  (2019) 'Heritability' In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6
   28. Lynch, K.E. (2016) ‘Gene Environment Correlation’. Encyclopaedia of Personality Differences. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1470-1

Special Journal Issues
   29. Serpico, D., Lynch K.E., Porter, T. (Eds.) 2022. Special Issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science on “New Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Quantitative Genetics”

In Review





In Preparation

Lynch, K.E. 'How a focus on intelligence has shaped the nature-nurture debate'
Lynch, K.E. 'Indirect Genetic Causes'
​Sword, G., Griffiths, P.E., Lynch, K.E., and Simpson, S. Should locusts get personalities?
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