David Sloan Wilson
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David Sloan Wilson (born 1949) is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is a son of the author Sloan Wilson and co-founder of the Evolution Institute.
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Publications
- Unto Others (1998) co-edited with Elliott Sober. (Proposition of a framework called multilevel selection theory, which incorporates the more orthodox approach of gene-level selection and individual selection).
- Darwin's Cathedral (2002) (Religion as a multi-level adaptation).
- Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology (2006) co-edited with E. O. Wilson
- Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives (2007)
- The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time (2011)
- Pathological Altruism (2011) co-edited with Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, and Guruprasad Madhavan.
- Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others (2015)
- The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative (2005) co-edited with Jonathan Gottschall
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