The route from acceptance to publication is BJPS is a long one. As a result, there are many papers that are in the queue, waiting to be assigned an issue.
One that is nearing the front of the queue is this contribution from T.Y. William Wong, called “The Neo-Gouldian Argument for Evolutionary Contingency.” It is happy timing, since it was recently announced that the next MBL-ASU History of Biology Seminar will be called “Replaying Life’s Tape: Historical Contingency in the Life Sciences.”
Very roughly, the paper seeks to update Gould’s arguments about the contingency of life’s history in light of recent studies of Cambrian disparity and the selectivity of mass extinctions. I should say that this description is based entirely on the abstract: I haven’t had a chance to read the paper yet. But it seems likely to be interesting to readers of this blog.