David Sloan Wilson, PhD - Publications

Affiliations: 
Biology Binghamton University, Vestal, NY, United States 
Area:
Evolution

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2023 Wilson DS, Madhavan G, Gelfand MJ, Hayes SC, Atkins PWB, Colwell RR. Multilevel cultural evolution: From new theory to practical applications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2218222120. PMID 37036975 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2218222120  0.422
2020 Seitz BM, Aktipis A, Buss DM, Alcock J, Bloom P, Gelfand M, Harris S, Lieberman D, Horowitz BN, Pinker S, Wilson DS, Haselton MG. The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 33093198 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009787117  0.731
2020 Wilson DS, Philip MM, MacDonald IF, Atkins PWB, Kniffin KM. Core design principles for nurturing organization-level selection. Scientific Reports. 10: 13989. PMID 32814808 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-020-70632-8  0.356
2020 Hayes SC, Hofmann SG, Wilson DS. Clinical psychology is an applied evolutionary science. Clinical Psychology Review. 81: 101892. PMID 32801086 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cpr.2020.101892  0.485
2018 Wilson DS. Multilevel selection and Tomasello’sA Natural History of Human Morality: A translation manual Philosophical Psychology. 31: 669-679. DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2018.1486606  0.357
2016 Hartberg YM, Wilson DS. Sacred text as cultural genome: an inheritance mechanism and method for studying cultural evolution Religion, Brain and Behavior. 1-13. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1195766  0.307
2015 Wilson DS, Gowdy JM. Human ultrasociality and the invisible hand: foundational developments in evolutionary science alter a foundational concept in economics Journal of Bioeconomics. 17: 37-52. DOI: 10.1007/S10818-014-9192-X  0.363
2014 Wilson DS, Hayes SC, Biglan A, Embry DD. Authors’ response: collaborating on evolving the future. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37: 438-60. PMID 25302354 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X14000016  0.44
2014 Wilson DS. Groups as units of functional analysis, individuals as proximate mechanisms. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37: 279-80. PMID 24970426 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13003075  0.333
2014 Wilson DS, Hayes SC, Biglan A, Embry DD. Evolving the future: toward a science of intentional change. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37: 395-416. PMID 24826907 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13001593  0.531
2014 Kniffin KM, Wansink B, Griskevicius V, Wilson DS. Beauty is in the in-group of the beholded: Intergroup differences in the perceived attractiveness of leaders Leadership Quarterly. 25: 1143-1153. DOI: 10.1016/J.Leaqua.2014.09.001  0.308
2014 Wilson DS. Cultural species and their ecosystems: Commentary on "Do Institutions for Collective Action Evolve?" by Elinor Ostrom Journal of Bioeconomics. 16: 31-38. DOI: 10.1007/S10818-013-9170-8  0.316
2013 Gowdy JM, Dollimore DE, Wilson DS, Witt U. Economic cosmology and the evolutionary challenge Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 90: S11-S20. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2012.12.009  0.322
2011 Eldakar OT, Wilson DS. Eight criticisms not to make about group selection. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 65: 1523-6. PMID 21644945 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2011.01290.X  0.321
2011 Wilson DS. Big idea: evolutionary theory can make our lives better New Scientist. 211: 28-29. DOI: 10.1016/S0262-4079(11)62082-4  0.303
2011 Wilson DS. Selfless evolution: A new view of human origins New Scientist. 211: vi-vii. DOI: 10.1016/S0262-4079(11)61856-3  0.325
2011 Wilson DS. Selfless evolution: An idea revived New Scientist. 211: iv-v. DOI: 10.1016/S0262-4079(11)61855-1  0.337
2011 Wilson DS. Selfless evolution: An idea rejected New Scientist. 211: ii-iii. DOI: 10.1016/S0262-4079(11)61854-X  0.322
2010 Eldakar OT, Dlugos MJ, Holt GP, Wilson DS, Pepper J. Population structure influences sexual conflict in wild populations of water striders. Behaviour. 147: 1615-1631. PMID 24049189 DOI: 10.1163/000579510X510520  0.311
2010 Eldakar OT, Wilson DS, Dlugos MJ, Pepper JW. The role of multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual conflict in the water strider aquarius remigis. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 64: 3183-9. PMID 20636357 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2010.01087.X  0.336
2010 Wade MJ, Wilson DS, Goodnight C, Taylor D, Bar-Yam Y, de Aguiar MA, Stacey B, Werfel J, Hoelzer GA, Brodie ED, Fields P, Breden F, Linksvayer TA, Fletcher JA, Richerson PJ, et al. Multilevel and kin selection in a connected world. Nature. 463: E8-9; discussion E9-. PMID 20164866 DOI: 10.1038/Nature08809  0.371
2010 Kniffin KM, Wilson DS. Evolutionary perspectives on workplace gossip: Why and how gossip can serve groups Group and Organization Management. 35: 150-176. DOI: 10.1177/1059601109360390  0.357
2010 Heywood LL, Garcia JR, Wilson DS. Mind the gap: Appropriate evolutionary perspectives toward the integration of the sciences and humanities Science and Education. 19: 505-522. DOI: 10.1007/S11191-009-9193-7  0.311
2009 Wilson DS, O'Brien DT, Sesma A. Human prosociality from an evolutionary perspective: variation and correlations at a city-wide scale Evolution and Human Behavior. 30: 190-200. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2008.12.002  0.342
2009 Storm I, Wilson DS. Liberal and conservative Protestant denominations as different socioecological strategies Human Nature. 20: 1-24. DOI: 10.1007/S12110-008-9055-Z  0.332
2009 O’Brien DT, Wilson DS, Hawley PH. “Evolution for Everyone”: A Course that Expands Evolutionary Theory Beyond the Biological Sciences Evolution: Education and Outreach. 2: 445-457. DOI: 10.1007/S12052-009-0161-0  0.304
2009 Wilson DS. Convergent cultural evolution and multilevel selection: Reply to comments on Janet Landa's 'The bioeconomics of homogenous middleman groups as adaptive units: Theory and empirical evidence viewed from a group selection framework' Journal of Bioeconomics. 11: 185-190. DOI: 10.1007/S10818-009-9063-Z  0.361
2008 Wilson DS, Wilson EO. Evolution "For the good of the group" American Scientist. 96: 380-389. DOI: 10.1511/2008.74.380  0.56
2008 Wilson DS, Van Vugt M, O'Gorman R. Multilevel selection theory and major evolutionary transitions: Implications for psychological science Current Directions in Psychological Science. 17: 6-9. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8721.2008.00538.X  0.376
2008 O'Gorman R, Sheldon KM, Wilson DS. For the Good of the Group? Exploring Group-Level Evolutionary Adaptations Using Multilevel Selection Theory Group Dynamics. 12: 17-26. DOI: 10.1037/1089-2699.12.1.17  0.377
2008 O'Gorman R, Wilson DS, Miller RR. An evolved cognitive bias for social norms Evolution and Human Behavior. 29: 71-78. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2007.07.002  0.306
2008 Landa JT, Wilson DS. Group selection: Theory and evidence. An Introduction to the Special Issue Journal of Bioeconomics. 10: 199-202. DOI: 10.1007/S10818-008-9049-2  0.322
2007 Wilson DS, Wilson EO. Rethinking the theoretical foundation of sociobiology. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 82: 327-48. PMID 18217526 DOI: 10.1086/522809  0.549
2007 Wilson DS, Wilson EO. Evolution: survival of the selfless New Scientist. 196: 42-46. DOI: 10.1016/S0262-4079(07)62792-4  0.473
2005 Wilson DS. Testing major evolutionary hypotheses about religion with a random sample. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 16: 382-409. PMID 26189838 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-005-1016-1  0.347
2005 Kniffin KM, Wilson DS. Utilities of gossip across organizational levels : Multilevel selection, free-riders, and teams. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 16: 278-92. PMID 26189751 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-005-1011-6  0.319
2005 Gervais M, Wilson DS. The evolution and functions of laughter and humor: a synthetic approach. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 80: 395-430. PMID 16519138 DOI: 10.1086/498281  0.347
2005 O'Gorman R, Wilson DS, Miller RR. Altruistic punishing and helping differ in sensitivity to relatedness, friendship, and future interactions Evolution and Human Behavior. 26: 375-387. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2004.12.006  0.346
2004 Wilson DS. What is wrong with absolute individual fitness? Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 19: 245-8. PMID 16701263 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tree.2004.02.008  0.346
2003 Wilson DS. Evolutionary ethics: Multilevel selection is not enough. Politics and the Life Sciences : the Journal of the Association For Politics and the Life Sciences. 22: 62-3. PMID 16859363 DOI: 10.1017/S0730938400006328  0.309
2003 Wilson DS, Dietrich E, Clark AB. On the inappropriate use of the naturalistic fallacy in evolutionary psychology Biology and Philosophy. 18: 669-682. DOI: 10.1023/A:1026380825208  0.331
2002 Wilson DS. HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: PARDON OUR DUST Evolution. 56: 2334-2338. DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[2334:Heppod]2.0.Co;2  0.341
2002 WILSON DS, SOBER E. Précis of Unto Others Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 65: 681-684. DOI: 10.1111/J.1933-1592.2002.Tb00232.X  0.371
2001 Wilson DS. Evolutionary biology: Struggling to escape exclusively individual selection Quarterly Review of Biology. 76: 199-206. DOI: 10.1086/393868  0.337
2000 Swenson W, Arendt J, Wilson DS. Artificial selection of microbial ecosystems for 3-chloroaniline biodegradation. Environmental Microbiology. 2: 564-71. PMID 11233164 DOI: 10.1046/J.1462-2920.2000.00140.X  0.328
1999 Wilson DS, Kniffin KM. Multilevel selection and the social transmission of behavior. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 10: 291-310. PMID 26196337 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-999-1005-X  0.353
1999 Wilson DS. A Critique of R.D. Alexander's Views on Group Selection Biology & Philosophy. 14: 431-449. DOI: 10.1023/A:1006577511789  0.363
1998 Robinson BW, Wilson DS. Optimal foraging, specialization, and a solution to Liem's paradox. The American Naturalist. 151: 223-35. PMID 18811353 DOI: 10.1086/286113  0.33
1998 Coleman K, Wilson Ds. Shyness and boldness in pumpkinseed sunfish: individual differences are context-specific. Animal Behaviour. 56: 927-936. PMID 9790704 DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.1998.0852  0.347
1998 Wilson DS. Adaptive individual differences within single populations Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 353: 199-205. DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.1998.0202  0.317
1998 Wilson D. Hunting, Sharing, and Multilevel Selection Current Anthropology. 39: 73-97. DOI: 10.1086/204699  0.363
1998 Wilson DS, Sober E. Multilevel selection and the return of group-level functionalism Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 21: 305-306. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X98221194  0.347
1998 Wilson D. Individual Differences in Machiavellianism as a Mix of Cooperative and Exploitative Strategies Evolution and Human Behavior. 19: 203-212. DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(98)00011-7  0.304
1997 Wilson DS. Altruism and organism: disentangling the themes of multilevel selection theory. The American Naturalist. 150: S122-34. PMID 18811309 DOI: 10.1086/286053  0.391
1997 Wilson DS. Introduction: multilevel selection theory comes of age. The American Naturalist. 150: S1-S21. PMID 18811307 DOI: 10.1086/286046  0.346
1997 Wilson DS. Human groups as units of selection. Science (New York, N.Y.). 276: 1816-7. PMID 9206841 DOI: 10.1126/Science.276.5320.1816  0.369
1997 Wilson DS. BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES AS FUNCTIONALLY ORGANIZED UNITS Ecology. 78: 2018-2024. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[2018:Bcafou]2.0.Co;2  0.315
1997 Wilson DS, Dugatkin LA. Group Selection and Assortative Interactions The American Naturalist. 149: 336-351. DOI: 10.1086/285993  0.629
1996 Wilson DS, Near D, Miller RR. Machiavellianism: a synthesis of the evolutionary and psychological literatures. Psychological Bulletin. 119: 285-99. PMID 8851275 DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.119.2.285  0.341
1996 Boehm C, Antweiler C, Eibl-Eibesfeldt I, Kent S, Knauft BM, Mithen S, Richerson PJ, Wilson DS. Emergency Decisions, Cultural-Selection Mechanics, and Group Selection [and Comments and Reply] Current Anthropology. 37: 763-793. DOI: 10.1086/204561  0.349
1996 Wilson DS, Sober E. More on group selection and human behavior Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 19: 782-787. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00044058  0.356
1996 Robinson BW, Wilson DS. Genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity in a trophically polymorphic population of pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) Evolutionary Ecology. 10: 631-652. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01237711  0.303
1996 WILSON DS, DUGATKIN LA. A reply to Lombardi & Hurlbert Animal Behaviour. 52: 423-425. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.1996.0186  0.482
1994 Wilson DS, Sober E. Group selection: The theory replaces the bogey man Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 17: 639-654. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X0003644X  0.311
1994 Wilson DS, Sober E. Reintroducing group selection to the human behavioral sciences Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 17: 585-608. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00036104  0.387
1994 Dugatkin LA, Wilson DS, Farrand L, Wilkens RT. Altruism, tit for tat and ‘outlaw’ genes Evolutionary Ecology. 8: 431-437. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01238193  0.587
1994 Dugatkin LA, Wilson DS. Choice experiments and cognition: A reply to Lamprecht & Hofer Animal Behaviour. 47: 1459-1461. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.1994.1193  0.544
1993 Wilson DS, Coleman K, Clark AB, Biederman L. Shy-bold continuum in pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus): an ecological study of a psychological trait Journal of Comparative Psychology. 107: 250-260. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.107.3.250  0.363
1993 Dugatkin LA, Wilson DS. Language and levels of selection Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 16: 701-701. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00032428  0.557
1993 Dugatkin LA, Wilson DS. Fish behaviour, partner choice experiments and cognitive ethology Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 3: 368-372. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00043386  0.589
1992 Dugatkin LA, Wilson DS. The prerequisites for strategic behaviour in bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus Animal Behaviour. 44: 223-230. DOI: 10.1016/0003-3472(92)90028-8  0.601
1992 Wilson DS, Pollock GB, Dugatkin LA. Can altruism evolve in purely viscous populations? Evolutionary Ecology. 6: 331-341. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02270969  0.576
1992 Wilson DS. On the relationship between evolutionary and psychological definitions of altruism and selfishness Biology and Philosophy. 7: 61-68. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00130164  0.336
1991 Dugatkin LA, Wilson DS. ROVER: a strategy for exploiting cooperators in a patchy environment American Naturalist. 138: 687-701. DOI: 10.1086/285243  0.589
1991 Wilson DS. Reply to J. Kopp's critique of "levels of selection: an alternative to individualism in biology and the human sciences" * Social Networks. 13: 393-395. DOI: 10.1016/0378-8733(91)90004-D  0.307
1991 Wilson DS, Dugatkin LA. Nepotism vs Tit-For-Tat, or, why should you be nice to your rotten brother? Evolutionary Ecology. 5: 291-299. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02214233  0.604
1990 Wilson DS. Weak Altruism, Strong Group Selection Oikos. 59: 135. DOI: 10.2307/3545133  0.353
1990 Wilson DS. Species of thought: A comment on evolutionary epistemology Biology &Amp; Philosophy. 5: 37-62. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02423832  0.313
1989 Wilson DS. Levels of selection: An alternative to individualism in biology and the human sciences Social Networks. 11: 257-272. DOI: 10.1016/0378-8733(89)90005-1  0.334
1988 Wilson DS. Holism and Reductionism in Evolutionary Ecology Oikos. 53: 269. DOI: 10.2307/3566073  0.323
1983 Wilson DS. The Group Selection Controversy: History and Current Status Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 14: 159-187. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Es.14.110183.001111  0.366
1983 Wilson DS, Gleeson SK. A BIG BOOK ON SEX Evolution. 37: 428-430. DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1983.Tb05556.X  0.313
1983 Wilson DS. The effects of population structure on the evolution of mutualism: a field test involving burying beetles and their phoretic mites American Naturalist. 121: 851-870. DOI: 10.1086/284108  0.325
1977 Wilson DS. Structured Demes and the Evolution of Group-Advantageous Traits The American Naturalist. 111: 157-185. DOI: 10.1086/283146  0.343
1975 Wilson DS. A theory of group selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 72: 143-6. PMID 1054490 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.72.1.143  0.361
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