Cooperation
An annotated collection of 5 books on cooperation, spanning 1998 to 2019. Featuring works by Elliott Sober & David Sloan Wilson, Lynn Margulis, Michael Tomasello and 1 more — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
The most rigorous contemporary defence of group selection — the idea that natural selection can operate on groups, not just individuals or genes. Sober and Wilson dismantle the orthodoxy that had dismissed group selectio…
Symbiotic Planet
Margulis spent decades arguing -- against near-universal resistance from the biological establishment -- that the eukaryotic cell arose not through gradual mutation but through the merging of distinct organisms. She was…
Origins of Human Communication
Tomasello's argument, built on decades of comparative work with great apes and human infants, is that human communication did not begin with language but with pointing and pantomime -- cooperative gestures grounded in sh…
The Secret of Our Success
Henrich's central thesis is disarmingly simple: humans are not successful because we are individually intelligent but because we are the cultural species, uniquely adapted to learn from each other and accumulate knowledg…
Becoming Human
The closure of Tomasello's forty-year research programme. Becoming Human traces how human uniqueness -- shared intentionality, normativity, cumulative culture -- emerges ontogenetically in children through a sequence of…