David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson is the kind of scientist I genuinely admire, because he refuses to keep evolution locked inside academia. As an evolutionary biologist and emeritus professor at Binghamton, his work on multilevel and group selection is serious science, yet he co-founded the Evolution Institute and Prosocial World to turn theory into tools for improving real communities. That ambition to make ideas useful, not just publishable, is rare and valuable. Born in 1949 to author Sloan Wilson, he inherited a love of storytelling and pointed it at biology. I find his insistence that science should help people both bold and quietly humane.

Name (English)

David Sloan Wilson

Name (Japanese)

デイビッド・スローン・ウィルソン

Reading

でいびっど・すろーん・うぃるそん

Born

January 1, 1949 (age 77)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

Origin

Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

Occupation

biologist / geneticist / university teacher / anthropologist

University

Michigan State University

Awards & achievements

• Guggenheim Fellowship

• Official sitehttps://davidsloanwilson.world/
• Xhttps://x.com/David_S_Wilson
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sloan%20Wilson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715615

Tags

• Connecticut
• biologist
• geneticist
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-21

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