The Origins of Group Design

Each of the titles below links to a paper abstract.  When you get to the abstract page, clicking on the abstract will down load the paper.

 

Thompson, N. S.  (1998). Reintroducing Wilson and Sober’s ‘Re-introducing Group selection to the social sciences.’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21:2, 304-305.

Thompson, N. S. (1999) Group selection and the origins of evil, Skeptic7:2, 70-73.

Thompson, N. S. (1999) Can we make a deal, John Hartung? Further comment on group selectionSkeptic, 7:4.

Thompson, N. S.  (2000) Shifting the natural selection metaphor to the group level.  Behavior and Philosophy, 28, 83-101.

Thompson, N.S. (2000). Niche construction and group selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences23:1, 161.

Joyce, D., Kennison, J., Densmore, O., Guerin, S., Barr, S., Charles, E., & Thomspon, N. S. (2006). My way or the highway: A more naturalistic model of altruism tested in interative prisoners’ dilemma. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 9(2). Available from http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/9/2/4.html

Thompson, Nicholas S.  and Patrick Derr (2009)Contra Epstein, Good Explanations Predict.  Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 12 (1) 9.  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/1/9.html