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Group selection in The Huffington Post

Explore David Sloan Wilson's insights on group selection and the role of individual selection theory in mainstream web media.

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I long ago noticed that David Sloan Wilson was a contributor to The Huffington Post. My own inclination at this point is still to believe that Wilson pushes too hard for group selection, and on occasion engages in the same sort of rhetorical excess which he accuses his critics, such as Richard Dawkins, of. That being said it is probably a net positive that a scientist manages to get some face time in the mainstream-web media. In any case, he has a series of posts on group selection up. Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection I: Why it is NeededTruth and Reconciliation for Group Selection II: The Original ProblemTruth and Reconciliation for Group Selection III: Naïve G roup SelectionismTruth and Reconciliation for Group Selection IV: The Great ReckoningTruth and Reconciliation for Group Selection V: The Patriotic History of Individual Selection TheoryTruth and Reconciliation for Group Selection VI: IndividualismTruth and Reconciliation ...

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