One of my favorite papers from Nick is the paper „Intentionality is the Mark of 
the Vital“. Maybe because every piece of code I write as a developer has a 
certain purpose and intention. Genetic code contains instructions & recipes 
too. It has an „intention“.

Why is that so many of the good papers are a collaboration of two persons from 
different departments? Wilson & Sober have written a paper about group 
selection, Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson too:

Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital
Nicholas Simonds Thompson & Patrick G. Derr
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302294783_Intentionality_is_the_Mark_of_the_Vital

Reintroducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences
David Sloan Wilson & Elliott Sober
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243771813_Reintroducing_Group_Selection_to_the_Human_Behavioral_Sciences

Transmission coupling mechanisms: Cultural group selection
Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47644497_Transmission_coupling_mechanisms_Cultural_group_selection

Many more papers from Boyd & Richerson can be found here at 
https://www.robboyd.net/publications 

-J.
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