Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation

TL;DR — A 48-page review of how statistical-physics models explain when cooperation emerges and survives among people.

How much weight it carries: A peer-reviewed review in Physics Reports; models and simulations rather than field evidence.

Where this came from

• Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — routing record: The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023)

48 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.