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David Sloan Wilson has been a professor of evolutionary biology at Binghamton University for more than twenty years. He has written three academic books on evolution, authored hundreds of papers, some with E.O. Wilson, and his first book for a general audience was Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think.

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Richard Dawkins and E.O. Wilson are both wrong–long live the consensus of the many!

Richard Dawkins’ recent review of E.O. Wilson’s new book The Social Conquest of Earth affords an opportunity to show that BOTH fail to recognize that the days of pitting group selection theory against kin selection theory are over. I have written an article to this effect titled “Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, and the Consensus of the Many” which has just been published on EVOLUTION: THIS V...

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Books by David Sloan Wilson

Average rating: 3.69 · 367 ratings · 74 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives 3.81 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society 3.52 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time 3.32 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative by David Sloan Wilson (Editor), Jonathan Gottschall, Frederick Crews (Foreword by) 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Natural Selection of Populations and Communities 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1980	My rating:
	Pathological Altruism by Barbara Oakley (Editor), Ariel Knafo (Editor), Guruprasad Madhavan (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Speciation and Its Consequences by John A. Endler (Editor), Daniel Otte (Editor), Kurt Benirschke (Contributor) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by Elliott Sober, David Sloan Wilson 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Comportamiento Altruista, El - Evolucion y Psicol by Elliot Sober, David Sloan Wilson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	My rating: