David Sloan Wilson

Selected Publications

Wilson, D. S. (2007). Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives. New York, NY: Delacorte Press.
Wilson, D. S. (2002). Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sober, E., & Wilson, D. S. (1998). Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Gottschall, J. and D.S. Wilson, Eds. (2005). The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
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Wilson, D.S., M. Van Vugt, and R. O'Gorman (2008). Multilevel selection theory and major evolutionary transitions: implications for psychological science. Current Directions in Psychological Science, in press
Wilson, D.S. and E.O. Wilson (2007). Survival of the Selfless. New Scientist, Nov. 3 pp 42-46.
Storm, I. (2007). Liberal and conservative religion as different socio-ecological strategies. Masters thesis. Note: Ingrid Storm is my former grad student and her thesis is included here as a resource for my blog titled "Are Liberals and Conservatives Different Species? The Answer is Yes.
Wilson, D. S. and E.O. Wilson (2007). Rethinking the theoretical foundation of sociobiology. Quarterly Review of Biology, in press
Wilson, D.S. (2007). Beyond Demonic Memes: Why Richard Dawkins is wrong about religion. Skeptic Magazine, in press; currently available on the web at http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-07-04.html
Wilson, D.S. (2007). Social Semantics: Toward a genuine pluralism in the study of social behavior. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, in press
Wilson, D. S. and M. Csikszentmihalyi (2006). Health and the Ecology of Altruism. in The Science of Altruism and Health. S. G. Post, ed. Oxford, Oxford University Press. In Press. DSW01
Wilson, D. S. (2006). Human groups as adaptive units: toward a permanent concensus. in The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition. P. Carruthers, S. Laurence and S. Stich. Oxford, Oxford University Press. DSW02
Wilson, D. S. (2004). Natural selection and complex systems: a complex interaction. Self-organization and Evolution of Biological and Social Systems. C. Hemelrijk. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press: in press. DSW03
Wilson, D. S. (2005). Testing major evolutionary hypotheses about religion with a random sample. Human Nature in press. DSW04
Wilson, D. S. (2005). Evolutionary Social Constructivism. in The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative. J. Gottshcall and D. S. Wilson. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press. in press. DSW05
Wilson, D. S. (2005). Evolutionary social constructivism: narrowing but not yet bridging the gap. Metanexus Anthropos. 2004.11.17 . http://www.metanexus.net/metanexus_online/show_article.asp?9167
Wilson, D. S. (2005). “Evolution for Everyone: How to increase acceptance of, interest in, and knowledge about evolution.” Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology. In press DSW06
Gervais, M. and D. S. Wilson (2005). “The Evolution and Functions of Laughter and Humor: A Synthetic Approach.” Quarterly Review of Biology. 80:395-430. DSW07
Kniffin, K. M. and D. S. Wilson (2005). “Utilities of gossip across organizational levels: multilevel selection, free-riders, and teams.” Human Nature 16: 278-292. DSW08
O'Gorman, R. and D. S. Wilson (2005). “Altruistic punishment and helping differ in their sensitivity to genetic relatedness and future interactions.” Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 375-387. DSW09
Wilson, D. S., Ed. (2004). The New Fable of the Bees. Advances in Austrian Economics 7: 201-220. DSW10
Wilson, D. S. (2004). “What is wrong with absolute individual fitness?” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 245-248. DSW11
Wilson, D. S., J. Timmel, et al. (2004). “Cognitive cooperation: when the going gets tough, think as a group.” Human Nature 15: 225-250. DSW12
Kniffin, K. and D. S. Wilson (2004). “The effect of non-physical traits on the perception of physical attractiveness: three naturalistic studies.” Evolution and Human Behavior 25: 88-101. DSW13
Wilson, D. S., E. Dietrich, et al. (2003). “On the inappropriate use of the naturalistic fallacy in evolutionary psychology.” Biology and Philosophy 18: 669-682. DSW14
Wilson, D. S. and R. O'Gorman (2003). “Emotions and Actions associated with norm breaking events.” Human nature 14: 277-304. DSW15
Wilson, D. S. (2002). Evolution, morality and human potential. Evolutionary Psychology: alternative approaches. S. J. Scher and F. Rauscher, Kluwer Press: 55-70. DSW16
Wilson, D. S. (2001). Cooperation and altruism. Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and case studies. C. W. Fox, D. A. Roff and D. J. Fairbairn. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 222-231. DSW17
Wilson, D. S., C. Wilczynski, et al. (2000). Gossip and other aspects of language as group-level adaptations. Cognition and Evolution. C. Heyes and L. Huber. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press: 347-365. DSW18
Swenson, W., D. S. Wilson, et al. (2000). “Artificial Ecosystem Selection.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97: 9110-9114. DSW19
Swenson, W., J. Arendt, et al. (2000). “Artificial selection of microbial ecosystems for 3-chloroaniline biodegradation.” Environmental Microbiology 2: 564-571. DSW20
Wilson, D. S. (1998). “Adaptive individual differences within single populations.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 353: 199-205. DSW21
Wilson, D. S. (1998). “Hunting, sharing and multilevel selection: the tolerated theft model revisited.” Current Anthropology 39: 73-97. DSW22
Robinson, B. W. and D. S. Wilson (1998). “Optimal foraging theory, specialization and a solution to Liem's paradox.” American Naturalist 151: 223-235. DSW23
Wilson, D. S. and L. A. Dugatkin (1997). “Group selection and assortative interactions.” American naturalist 149: 336-351. DSW24

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