DAVID SLOAN WILSON

Email: dwilson@binghamton.edu

(PhD Michigan State University 1975), Professor of Biology and Anthropology, is an evolutionary biologist who studies humans in addition to other species. Specific interests relevant to anthropology include the relationship between genetic and cultural evolution, human social groups as adaptive units, and the nature of individual differences in personality traits such as shyness and boldness or cooperation and exploitation. His research includes theoretical models, emporical studies, and analyses of broad subjects such as religion that attempt to integrate evolutionary biology and the human social sciences.

1998 Wilson, D. S. Hunting, sharing and multilevel selection: the tolerated theft model revisited. Current Anthropology, 39, 73-97.

1998 Sober, E., & Wilson, D. S. Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

1999 Wilson, D. S., & Kniffin, K. M. Multilevel selection and the social transmission of behavior. Human Nature, 10, 291-310.

2000 Wilson, D. S.,Wilczynski, C.,Wells, A., & Weiser, L. Gossip and other aspects of language as group-level adaptations. In C. Heyes & L. Huber (Eds.), Cognition and Evolution (pp. 347-365). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2002 Wilson, D. S. Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Course Taught Fall 2007: ANTH 280F/BIOL 105

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