The papers
The research behind the show, translated into plain English.
Elinor Ostrom
People sharing a limited resource — a fishery, a forest, a budget — don’t always wreck it. Given the right rules, ordinary communities govern themselves better than markets or governments do.
Sober & Wilson
The book that put group selection back on the table. Real altruism exists, and natural selection can favor it — as long as it’s selection between groups, not just within them.
Maynard Smith & Szathmáry
Every big leap in life’s history — genes into cells, cells into bodies, bodies into societies — is the same trick repeated: a crowd of competitors becomes a single cooperating unit.
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