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  • Queller D. C. (2008) The social side of wild yeast. Nature 454:589-590. PDF

  • Brown S. P., Buckling, A. (2008) A social life for discerning microbes. Cell 135: 600-603. PDF

  • Zimmer, C. 2008 Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, Pantheon. Amazon link. (Popular book that discusses our 2007 PNAS paper on competition in biofilms).

  • Shermer, M. 2008 Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise. Scientific American HTML

  • O'Connell S. 2008 Lucky for some: Science of superstition. The Independent HTML

  • Highfield R. 2008 Why we evolved to be superstitous. Daily Telegraph, UK 10 Sept 2008 HTML

  • Callaway E. 2008 Supersitions evolved to help us survive. New Scientist HTML

  • The evolution of quorum sensing in bacterial biofilms. 2008 In brief in Nature Reviews Microbiology PDF

  • Velicer, G. J. 2005. Evolution of cooperation: Does selfishness restraint lie within? Current Biology 15, R173-R175 PDF

  • Robinson, G.E., Grozinger C. M., Whitfield, C. W. 2005 Sociogenomics: Social life in molecular terms Nature Reviews Genetics 6: 257-70 PDF

  • Hooper, R. 2005 Teeth brushing breaks up bacterial families New Scientist 2502: 18 HTML

  • Bower, B. 2004 One-celled socialites. Bacteria mix and mingle with microscopic fervor .Science News 166 (21) HTML

  • Blackman, S. 2004 Spite: evolution finally gets nasty. The Scientist 2004, 18:14 PDF

  • Whitfield J. 2002 The police state. Nature 416, 782-784 PDF