David Sloan Wilson
is President of ProSocial World and This View of Life Editor-in-Chief
This View of Life Editor in Chief, President of Evolution Institute
Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University
David Sloan Wilson is president of ProSocial World and SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, through Prosocial World and in his own research and writing. A complete archive of his work is available at www.David SloanWilson.world. His most recent books include his first novel, Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III, and a memoir, A Life Informed by Evolution.
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October 16, 2017
Learning from Arizona State University about Inter-Disciplinarity: A Conversation with Robert Boyd
Inter-disciplinarity is something that most universities want but might not be able to achieve without organizational change.
October 10, 2017
Completing Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: A Conversation with Kevin Laland
At the heart of Kevin Laland's new book is a “cultural drive” mechanism, whereby selection for accurate, efficient information transmission shaped the evolution of the primate brain and intelligence.
January 10, 2017
Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Evolution: Tear Down This Wall! A Conversation with Robert Paul
Robert Paul is one of a very few cultural anthropologists who is contributing his extensive ethnographic knowledge to the modern study of cultural evolution.
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November 1, 2016
When Evolutionists Acquire Superhuman Powers: A Conversation with Peter and Rosemary Grant
Two developments helped Peter and Rosemary Grant to peer into the genomes of finches. The first was the invention of tools to measure microsatellite DNA. With more than a dozen genetic loci they were able to characterize each finch with a unique DNA signature.
August 8, 2016
Darwin’s Bridge to the Humanities: An Interview with Joseph Carroll
Bringing together cutting-edge scientists and scholars across this range, Darwin's Bridge gives an expert account of consilience and makes it possible to see how far we have come toward unifying knowledge about the human species, what major issues are still in contention, and which areas of research are likely to produce further progress.
July 11, 2016
When the Strong Outbreed the Weak: An Interview with William Muir
Muir’s experiments reveal a tremendous naiveté in the idea that creating a good society is merely a matter of selecting the “best” individuals. A good society requires members working together to create what cannot be produced alone, or at least to refrain from exploiting each other.
May 30, 2016
Evolutionary Biology’s Master Craftsman: An Interview with Richard Lenski
An interview with Richard Lenski, who has become world renowned for presiding over the longest running evolutionary experiment of all time, on the bacterium E. coli, which has now exceeded 65,000 generations.
April 7, 2016
Empowering the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
March 24, 2016
How’s Your Ancestral Health?
Are humans driven to behave in ways that are detrimental to our wellbeing by adaptations to past environments?
February 11, 2016
What Donald Trump & Company Need to Know About Evolution
Why should anyone care about evolution literacy when so many other issues clamor for our attention, such as the economy, inequality, climate change, terrorism, and the refugee crisis? The answer is that evolutionary theory can help us understand and provide solutions to each and every one of these issues.
February 1, 2016
The New Atheism as a Stealth Religion: Five Years Later
The world appears to be tiring of the New Atheism movement, which burst upon the scene about five years ago with the so-called Four Horsemen: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens.
January 3, 2016
Doing Well By Doing Good: A Report on Socially Responsible Businesses
Can businesses do well by doing good? Yes, according to this report headed by EI President David Sloan Wilson. The report provides a much needed alternative to the “Greed is Good” philosophy of orthodox economic theory, which has dominated the curriculum of business schools for over 50 years.
December 10, 2015
Steering Toward the Omega Point: A Roundtable Discussion of Altruism, Evolution, and Spirituality
Is it possible to be spiritual and scientific at the same time?
