David Sloan Wilson
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
David Sloan Wilson, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Departments of Biology and Anthropology
Director of EvoS
Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
David Sloan Wilson (
http://evolution.binghamton.edu/dswilson/) is SUNY Distinguished Professor, Departments of Biology and Anthropology, Binghamton University in New York. He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, in his own research and as director of EvoS, a unique campus-wide evolutionary studies program (
http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/). He is known for championing the theory of multilevel selection, which explains how adaptations can evolve at all levels of the biological hierarchy, from genes to ecosystems. His academic books include
The Natural Selection of Populations and Communities (1980),
Unto Others: the evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior (with Elliott Sober; Harvard 1998),
Darwin's Cathedral: evolution, religion, and the nature of society (Chicago 2002), and The
Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative (co-edited with Jonathan Gottschall, Northwestern 2005). He has become known to a general audience though his blogs for the Huffington Post (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sloan-wilson/#blogger_bio) and his first trade book
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives (Delacorte, 2007), which Natalie Angier described as "a minor miracle, the near complete emulsifying of science and the real world." His next book will be published by Little, Brown and is titled
Evolving the City: An Evolutionist Contemplates Changing the World--One City at a Time.
