Biography

David Sloan Wilson is professor in the departments of biology and anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. He earned his Ph.D. at Michigan State University. He is an evolutionary biologist with a wide range of interests, including natural selection as a hierarchical process, the nature of intraspecific variation, the evolution of ecological communities and human evolutionary biology. He is the author most recently of Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think about Our Lives (Delacorte Press, 2007) and Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society (University of Chicago Press, 2002). He is also coauthor with Elliott Sober of Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Harvard University Press, 1998). He recently collaborated with Edward O. Wilson on a major review article, “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology,” in the Quarterly Review of Biology. Address: Biology Department, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902. Internet: dwilson at binghamton dot edu

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