Evolutionary Biologist
David Sloan Wilson is an American evolutionary biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University, known for championing multilevel selection theory. His books, including This View of Life, apply evolutionary thinking to human societies, economics, and public policy.
by David Sloan Wilson
Wilson argues that Darwinian evolution has only been half-completed: applied systematically to biology but still resisted in the study of culture, policy, and everyday life. Drawing on multilevel selection theory, he contends that prosocial behavior is selected at the group level and proposes evolutionary design as a tool for consciously improving schools, cities, and economies.
The books David Sloan Wilson references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Charles Darwin
Darwin lays out the evidence that species evolve through natural selection, where small heritable variations accumulate over generations. The theory unified biology and changed how we understand life.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins reframes evolution from the organism's perspective to the gene's. Bodies are survival machines built by genes competing to replicate - a view that transformed modern biology.
by Jonathan Haidt
Haidt argues that moral judgements are driven by intuition, not reason. We are fundamentally groupish, and understanding our innate moral foundations explains why good people disagree politically.
Who David draws from, and who draws from David — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.