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--></style></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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“.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital</p><p class=MsoNormal>Nicholas Simonds Thompson & Patrick G. Derr</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302294783_Intentionality_is_the_Mark_of_the_Vital</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Reintroducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences</p><p class=MsoNormal>David Sloan Wilson & Elliott Sober</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243771813_Reintroducing_Group_Selection_to_the_Human_Behavioral_Sciences</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Transmission coupling mechanisms: Cultural group selection<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson<br>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47644497_Transmission_coupling_mechanisms_Cultural_group_selection<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many more papers from Boyd & Richerson can be found here at <a href="https://www.robboyd.net/publications">https://www.robboyd.net/publications</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-J.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>