Published Work

Peer-Reviewed Articles
  1. Lean, C. H., Vincent, R. M., Lynch, K. E., Jamrozik, E., & Jaschke, P. R. (2026). From mRNA stabilisation to mirror life: Biological orthogonality, incremental risk, and anticipatory governance. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 14, 1833212.
  2. Manzi, O., Lynch, K.E., Allman, D.M., Latty, T., White, T.E. (2026) Flexible self-protection as evidence of pain-like states in house crickets. Proceedings pf the Royal Society B. 293 (2070) (https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0609)
  3. White, T.E., Lynch, K.E. (2026) Where is the lust? Reproductive affects at the emergence of experience. Comparative Cognition and Behaviour Reviews, 21, 121-126.
  4. Allman, D. M., White, T. E., Lynch, K. E. (2026) Noxious Nomenclature: Is Inconsistent Language Hampering Our Understanding of Invertebrate Pain, Sentience, and Awareness? Comparative Cognition and Behaviour Reviews, 21, 15-24.
  5. Weaving, M., Lynch, K.E., Fine, C. (2026) Comparing Gender Hierarchy and Evolutionary Psychology explanations of workplace sexual harassment. Sexuality and Culture https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-026-10575-w. 
  6. Allen B, Abraham AJ, Arlinghaus R, Belant J, Blumstein DT, Bobier C, Bodenchuk M, Clauss M, Dawson S, Derbyshire S, Ferreira S, Fleming PJS, Forssman T, Gorecki V, Gortazar C, Griffin AS, Hampton J, Haswell P, Kerley G, Lean C, Leroy F, Linnell JDC, Lynch KE, Maré C, Melville H, Minnie L, Moodley Y, Nayeri D, O'Riain MJ, Parker DM, Périquet S, Proulx G, Radloff F, Schwab A, Selier S-AJ, Shephard S, Somers MJ, Van Wart TA, VerCauteren K, von Essen E (2025) Ethical arguments that support intentional animal killing. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Volume 13 - 2025 
  7. Lynch K.E., et al. Explicit value trade-offs in conservation: integrating animal welfare. (2025) Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 40(6), P593-600.
  8. Reimann 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.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-025-00770-3.
  9.  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, 23(1), 938-( preprint) 
  10. Nacko, S., Hall, M.A., Gloag, R., Lynch, K.E., Spooner-Hart, R., Cook, J., Riegler, M. 2023. Survival during heat events and variation of thermal tolerance across climate classes in Australian stingless bees. Journal of Thermal Biology, 117, 103671.
  11. 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)
  12. ​​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
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. Lynch, K.E.  and Blumstein D.T. (2020) 'The hidden ethical costs of conservation'. Science, 370:6513, 179-180.
  16. 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
  17. Lynch, K.E.  and Blumstein D.T. (2020) 'Effective Conservation'  ​Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 35(10), 857-859
  18. 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
  19. Lynch, K.E., Parke, E, O'Malley M. (2020) 'Microbiome causality: further reflections', (a response to commentaries). Biology and Philosophy, 34(6) 1-24. 
  20. 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
  21. ​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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. ​Lynch, K.E. and Bourrat, P. (2017) ‘Interpreting Heritability Causally’ Philosophy of Science, 84(1) 14-34
  25. Lynch, K.E. (2017) ‘Heritability and Causal Reasoning’ Biology & Philosophy, 32(1) 25-49.
  26. 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.

Commentaries & Reviews
   26. Lynch, K.E. 2025.  Animal ethics in the wild by Catia Faria, Quarterly Review of Biology, 10(3), 233-234.
   27. Mann, R.C., Lynch, K.E., Parke, E. (2025) Where is the organism concept? Agential accounts might help. Americn Journal of           Bioethics, 25(19), 17-19.
   28. Lynch, K.E., Strasser, J., Long, S., Brown, R.L.(2023)Two disanalogies with RCTs and their implications for second generation causal knowledge. BBS 46, 57.
   29. Lynch, K.E.  and Blumstein D.T. (2020) 'Conflicts and Triage'  ​Animal Sentience, 27(24)
​​   30. Blumstein D.T.  and Lynch, K.E. (2020) 'Innovative yes, but is it rewilding?' Animal Sentience, 28(8)  ​  
   31. ​Lynch, K.E.  (2019) ‘Why microbes not microbiomes are better causal explanations in gut-brain research.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e76

Reference Works
   32. Lynch, K.E. (2019)' Gut Microbiome' In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2782-1
   33. Lynch, K.E.  (2019) 'Heritability' In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6
   34. 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
   35. 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”
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