Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives

You know a scientist has made it to the "big time" when they are given the opportunity to write to a general audience. Some thinkers, such as Richard Dawkins, have made their name via popularization. Others, such as E.O. Wilson, only became notable figures outside of academia after having established their reputation and stature within science. David Sloan Wilson has taken the latter path. Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives is an ambitious book, as the title should make clear. But just as E.O. Wilson's forays into popularization have been powerfully colored by the science which has shaped his life, so Evolution for Everyone is much more intelligible in the context of David Sloan Wilson's intellectual projects. E.O. Wilson spent the first part of his career defending the importance of organismic biology against the molecular brigades led by James Watson, while ...