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I am a frequent contributor to the Evolution Institute's online magazine This View of Life, which I also manage, and the online magazine Evonomics.com, managed by my former student and current associate Robert Kadar. Here is a selection of articles from these magazines plus a variety of other outlets.

Master Class: A Conversation with Jonathan Birch About the Equivalence of Theories of Social Evolution

A Series of letters with the biologist/philosopher Massimo Pigliucci on human cultural evolution

What Bret Weinstein Gets Wrong About Group Selection.

Group Selection In Every Way Except Using the Words: A Critique The Goodness Paradox by Richard Wrangham

What All Theories of Social Evolution Share In Common

Fighting for the Middle Ground. David Sloan Wilson Interviews Holly Dunsworth on the Ethics of Teaching Evolution

Developing the Field Site Concept for the Study of Cultural Evolution: Two Essays By David Sloan Wilson and Harvey Whitehouse.

The Playwright and the Scientist: A Conversation Between Tom Stoppard and David Sloan Wilson

Was Darwin A Group Selectionist: A Conversation with Elliott Sober

Was Hamilton a Group Selectionist: A Conversation with Oren Harman

Blueprint for the Global Village

Evolving the New Economy: Tim O'Reilly and David Sloan Wilson

Humanizing Corporations: A Nobel Prize for Enlightened Business Leaders

The Invisible Hook: How Pirate Societies Prove Economic Self-Interest Wrong

Why Groups Fail (Hint: For the Same Reason That Nations Fail)