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.
In this collection, This View of Life references 3 other books.
It draws on The Origin of Species, The Selfish Gene and The Righteous Mind.
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Wilson takes the book's title from Darwin's closing paragraph in The Origin of Species and uses Darwin's grandeur-of-life passage as the framing argument for extending evolutionary reasoning beyond biology.
Wilson engages Dawkins's Selfish Gene as his central theoretical foil, challenging its gene-centrism with group- and multilevel-selection arguments he claims better explain human prosociality.
Wilson draws extensively on Haidt's Righteous Mind to support the case that morality evolved as a group-binding adaptation, treating Haidt's moral foundations as evidence for multilevel selection.
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