Publications

Scientific papers

• Ross H Crozier, Paul-Michael Agapow, Lisa J Dunnett (2006); Conceptual issues in phylogeny & conservation. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online 2:197-199.
• Ross H Crozier, Lisa J Dunnett, Paul-Michael Agapow (2005); Phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclature. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online 1:11-36.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (2005); Recreating large scale evolutionary phenomena. In Recent Advances in Artificial Life (eds. HA Abbass, T Bossamaier and J Wiles), pp1-12. Singapore: World Scientific.
• Paul-Michael Agapow and Ronald Sluys (2005); "The reality of taxonomic change", TREE, 20:278-280. (Readers might also find interesting the original (and much longer) draft.)
• Paul-Michael Agapow (2005). "Species: demarcation and diversity". In Phylogeny and Conservation (eds. A Purvis, JL Gittleman and TM Brooks). Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.
• Ricardo BR Azevedo, Rolf Lohaus, Volker Braun, Markus Gumbel, Muralikrishna Umamaheshwar, Paul-Michael Agapow, Wouter Houthoofd, Ute Platzer, Gaetan Borgonie, Hans-Peter Meinzer & Armand M. Leroi (2005). "The simplicity of metazoan cell lineages" Nature 433:152-156.
• Paul-Michael Agapow, Olaf Bininda-Emonds, Keith Crandall, John L Gittleman, Georgina Mace, Jon Marshall and Andy Purvis (2004); "The Impact of Species Concept on Biodiversity", Quarterly Review of Biology, 79:161-179.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (2004). "The evolution of organization", in Australasian Complexity 2004 (eds. R Stonier and X Yua). Cairns (Aust): Central Queensland University.
• Rebecca N Johnson, Paul-Michael Agapow and Ross H Crozier (2003); "A tree-island approach to inferring phylogeny in the ant subfamily Formicinae, with special reference to the evolution of weaving", Mol. Phyl. Evol., 29:317-330.
• Volker Braun, Ricardo BR Azevedo, Markus Gumbel, Paul-Michael Agapow, Armand M. Leroi and Hans-Peter Meinzer (2003) "ALES: cell lineage analysis and mapping of developmental events", Bioinformatics, 19:851-858.
• Andy Purvis, Andrea J Webster, Paul-Michael Agapow, Kate E Jones and Nick JB Isaac (2003); "Primate life histories and phylogeny", In PM Kappeler and M Pereira (eds.), Primate Life History Cambridge University Press, pp25-40.
• Nick T.B. Isaac, Paul-Michael Agapow, Paul J. Harvey and Andy Purvis (2003); "Phylogenetically nested comparisons for testing correlates of species-richness: a simulation study of continuous variables", Evolution, 57:18-26.
• Peter WH Holland, Richard R Copley, Elizabeth A Snell, Rebecca F Furlong and Paul-Michael Agapow (2002); "Exploiting genomics in evolutionary developmental biology", in T. Nagate (ed), Genome Science: Towards a New Paradigm, Elsevier, pp217-229.
• Paul-Michael Agapow and Nick T.B. Isaac (2002); "MacroCAIC: correlates of species richness", Diversity & Distributions, 8:41-43.
• Andy Purvis, Aris Katzourakis and Paul-Michael Agapow (2002); "Evaluating phylogenetic tree shape: Two modifications to Fusco & Cronk's Method", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 214:99-103.
• Paul-Michael Agapow and Andy Purvis (2002); "Power of eight tree shape statistics to detect non-random diversification: a comparison by simulation of two models of cladogenesis", Systematic Biology, 51:866-872.
• Andy Purvis and Paul-Michael Agapow (2002); "Phylogeny imbalance: Taxonomic level matters", Systematic Biology, 51:844-854.
• Paul-Michael Agapow and Austin Burt (2001); "Indices of multilocus linkage disequilibrium", Molecular Ecology Notes, 1:101-102.
• Andy Purvis, Paul-Michael Agapow, John L Gittleman, Georgina M Mace (2000); "Non-random extinction increases the loss of evolutionary history", Science, 288:328-330.
• Ross H Crozier, Karsten Pederson and Paul-Michael Agapow (1999); "Phylogenetic assessment of total biodiversity", in Winston Ponder & Daniel Tunney (ed), The Other 99%: The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mossman (Australia), pp30-33.
• Ross H Crozier, Paul-Michael Agapow and Karsten Pederson (1999); "Towards complete biodiversity assessment: an evaluation of the subterranean bacterial communities in the Oklo region of the sole surviving natural nuclear reactor", FEMS Microbial Ecology, 28:325-334.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1996); "Computational brittleness and the evolution of computer viruses", in Hans-Michael Voigt, Werner Ebeling, Ingo Rechenberg and Hans-Paul Schwefel (ed), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IV, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp2-11.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1996); "Extinction, self-organised criticality and evolution", in Proceedings of Mendel `96, Technical University of Brno, pp5-10.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1994); "Bootstrapping evolution with extra-somatic information", in Russell Stonier and Xing Huo Yu (ed), Complex Systems: mechanisms of adaptation, Ios Press, Amsterdam, pp29-36.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1993); "Computer viruses - the inevitability of evolution?", in David Green and Terry Bossomaier (ed), Complex Systems: from biology to computation, Ios Press, Amsterdam, pp46-54.
• Don J Winzor, Paul-Michael Agapow and Craig M Jackson (1991); "Preferential ligand binding to multi-state acceptor systems: comparisons of the calcium binding and dimerization characteristics of prothrombin and fragment 1", Journal of Theor. Biol., 153:385-400.
• Paul-Michael Agapow and Don J Winzor (1988); "Allowance for effects of electrostatic repulsion on protein dimerization", Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 953:197-200.

Conference proceedings, presentations & technical reports

• Paul-Michael Agapow & John Bashiruddin (2007); ReLaIS: An epi-informatics constellation, WAVLD, Melbourne November 2007.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (2005); ReLaIS: Reference Laboratories Information System, Workshop on Global Information Systems, IAH/VLA December 2005.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (2001); "Six Views of Mt. Fufi: Meditations on Evolution, Development and Efficiency", German Cancer Research Centre (DKfz), Heidelberg, report 125.
• Paul-Michael Agapow and Joan E. McGalliard (1997),"An introduction to Objective-C", in George Michaelson (ed), Proceedings of the AUUG'97 Conference, AUUG, pp237-242.
• Joan E McGalliard and Paul-Michael Agapow (1996); "Smalltalk as a commercial development environment: An examination" in AUUG 96 and Asia-Pacific World Wide Web Joint Conference.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1996); "Extinction, self-organised criticality and evolution", in Proceedings of Mendel `96, Technical University of Brno, pp5-10.
• Joan E McGalliard and Paul-Michael Agapow (1996); "Surviving C++: Tips and tricks", in David Purdue (ed), Proceedings of AUUG Summer Conference, AUUG-NSW, pp50-59.
• Joan E McGalliard and Paul-Michael Agapow (1996); "Surviving C++: Tips and tricks", in Enno Davids (ed), AUUG-Vic Summer 96 Proceedings, AUUG-Vic, pp12-22. (Revised version of above paper.)
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1994); "Alternatives to C++", in Arnold Pears (ed), Australian Unix User Group Summer Conference, AUUG-Vic, pp31-38.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1993); "Computer viruses - the inevitability of evolution?", in Michael Paddon (ed), Australian Unix User Group Summer Conference 1993, AUUG-Vic. (Revised version of above paper.)

Popular science

• Paul-Michael Agapow (1994); "Does God play Yahtzee?", Arena, 9:25-27.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1993); "Malicious logic", Arena, 12:45-48.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1993); weekly column in "Computer Age", The Age (Melbourne) newspaper.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1993); assorted articles in The Australian newspaper.
• Paul-Michael Agapow (1989); "Science noir - Ethics, law and the new biology", Ormond Papers, 6:123-130.

Press

Some of my work has been covered in the general media, or I've been called upon to act as an "expert":

• Various notes on the evolution of organisation:

  • Medical News Today
  • The Biochemist
  • US Guides.net
  • Innovations report
  • DesignWatch (Intelligent Design evangelists, who use the paper as evidence for ID)

• Computers, email and security, 5 Live Drive (radio), 03/8/22.

• "Family Misfortunes", New Scientist, 00/4/22.

• "Extinction - An End to Elephants?", www.science.net.org.uk, April 2000.

• "Computer Viruses - the inevitability of evolution", PC Week, 93/2/10.

• "Viruses 'as alien life forms'", ComputerWorld (Australia), 93/12/18.

• "Alien life form may be in bits ... and bytes", Canberra Times, 92/12/10.

• "Beware! Life forms in the machine", ANU Reporter, 92/12/9.

Miscellaneous

• Paul-Michael Agapow (2002) "EcoBeaker 2.0" (software review), Animal Conservation, 5:85.