Biology Cultural Immune Systems as Parts of Cultural Superorganisms When the concept of 'organism' is expanded to include groups as organisms, the concepts of…David Sloan WilsonDecember 8, 2022
Biology Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 8. Anatomy of a Model Group selection was decisively rejected on theoretical grounds, according to the patriotic history of individual…David Sloan WilsonJune 16, 2022
Biology Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 7. If You Make A Mess, Should You Clean It Up? The only way to recover the simplicity is by cleaning up the mess that was…David Sloan WilsonMay 20, 2022
Biology Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 6. Individualism Individualism is the mistaken belief that individuals are somehow a privileged level of the biological…David Sloan WilsonApril 26, 2022
Biology Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 5. The Patriotic History of Individual Selection Theory One reason that I don't spend a lot of time bashing religion is that there…David Sloan WilsonApril 18, 2022
BiologyCulturePsychology Evaluating Narratives of Conscious Evolution Download this article as a PDF version. The idea that we can consciously evolve our…David Sloan WilsonApril 4, 2022
Biology Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 4. The Great Reckoning By the 1960s, everything that evolved by natural selection was interpreted as a variety of…David Sloan WilsonMarch 9, 2022
Biology Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 3. Naìˆve Group Selectionism Pre-Darwinian notions did not come to an abrupt halt with the advent of Darwin's theory.…David Sloan WilsonFebruary 24, 2022
BiologyPolitics What Will It Take To Decolonize Ecology? The field of "western" Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) started centuries ago when European naturalists,…Adriana Romero-Olivares, Prakash KashwanFebruary 17, 2022
Biology Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 2. The Original Problem Darwin observed that groups of prosocial individuals will survive and reproduce better than groups of…David Sloan WilsonFebruary 15, 2022