- Edited Works
- Moore R., Brown, R.L. (Eds.) Special issue of Synthese on “Cultural Evolution of Social Cognition, 2022.
- Brown, R. L, Pain, R., Shipton, C. (Eds.) Topical Section of Biological Theory on “Material Evidence and Cognitive Evolution”, 2023.
- Journal Articles
- Brown, R. L. (forthcoming). Does evolutionary biology support the idea that our best theories of human cognitive evolution should be gradualist? Mind & Language.
- Brown, R. L., & Brooks, R. C. (2025). Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites? Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2025.2504070
- Brown, R.L. (2023) "Structuralism and Selectionism: Friends or Foes?”, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, S1084-9521(22)00061-1. 145: 13-21.
- Brown, R.L. (2022). Mapping Out the Landscape: A Multi-dimensional Approach to Behavioral Innovation. Philosophy of Science, 89(5), 1176-1185.
- Taylor, A. H., Bastos, A. P. M., Brown, R. L., Allen, C. (2022) "The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(9): 738-750.
- Brown, R. L. (2021) “Is cultural evolution always fast? Challenging the idea that cognitive gadgets would be capable of rapid and adaptive evolution” Synthese. 199 (3), 8965-8989.
- Pain, R. & Brown, R.L. (2020) “Mind the gap: A more evolutionarily plausible role for technical reasoning in cumulative technological culture” Synthese, 199: 2467–2489.
- Brown, R.L. (2019) "“Infer with care: A critique of the argument from animals” Mind & Language. 34(1): 21-36.
- Brown, R.L. (2014) “Identifying behavioural novelty.” Biological Theory, 9(2): 135-148.
- Brown, R. L. (2014) “What evolvability really is.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 65(3): 549-572.
- Brown, R. L. (2013) “Learning, evolvability and exploratory behaviour: Extending the evolutionary reach of learning.” Biology & Philosophy,28(6): 933-955.
- K. McNamara, R. Brown, M. Elgar & T. Jones (2008) “Paternity costs from polyandry compensated by increased fecundity in the hide beetle.” Behavioural Ecology, 19: 433-440.
- Book Chapters in Edited Volumes
- Brown, R.L. (2020) “Proximate-Ultimate Causation and Evo-Devo” in The Evolutionary Developmental Biology Reference Guide (Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Gerd B. Müller and Alan Love eds.). Springer.
- Brown, R.L. (2017) “Animal Traditions: what are they and why do they matter?” in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds (Kristin Andrews & Jacob Beck eds.). Routledge, pp. 362-371.
- Brown, R.L. (2014) “Rethinking behavioural evolution,” in Entangled Life: Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences, Barker, Desjardins & Pearce (eds.). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 237-260.
- Commentaries & Critical Reviews
- Brown, R.L. (2024) Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology? Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, Quarterly Review of Biology, 99 (4): 240-241.
- Lynch, K., Brown, R., Strasser, J., & Yeo, S. (2023). A disanalogy with RCTs and its implications for second-generation causal knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E194. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22002242
- Brown, R.L. & Pain R. (2022) “No tinkering allowed: When the end-goal requires a highly specific or risky, and complex action sequence, expect ritualistic scaffolding" Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 45, e252.
- Brown, R. L., Brusse C, Heubner B & Pain R. (2020) “Unification at the Cost of Realism and Precision” Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43, e95.
- Brown, R.L. (2017) “Not statistically significant, but still scientific” Animal Sentience, 16(14).
- Brown, R.L. (2015) “Why development matters.” Biology & Philosophy, 30(6): 889-899.
- Book Reviews
- Brown, R.L. (2015) “A clear-eyed defense of philosophy of biology.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 49: 63-65.
- Whitepapers and Reports
- Maja Adamska, Rachael Brown, Xia Hua, Dan Noble, Ben Phillips, Kate Sanders, Lexing Xie (in press) Evolutionary Science for a Changing World: A whitepaper prepared for the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Science (Co-lead author with Sanders).
- Other
- Pain, R., Shipton, C. & Brown, R.L. Archaeology and Cognitive Evolution: Introduction to the Thematic Section. Biol Theory (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-023-00448-y
- Moore, R. & Brown, R. L. (2022) “Social Inheritance and the Social Mind: Introduction to the Synthese topical collection on the cultural evolution of human social cognition”, Synthese, 200, 225.