The Theory and Practice of Cultural Evolution: Past, Present, and Future, with Peter J. Richerson

Ph.D. (Zoology), University of California, Davis.

Positions: Professor 1983-2006. Distinguished Professor 2005-2009. Associate Director, Institute of Ecology, 1977-80, Director 1983-90. Visiting Fellow Neurosciences Institute, 1984, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1991. Visiting Professor, University of Exeter, 2004.

Present Position: Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, U.C. Davis. 2009-present.

Service: Editorial boards of Limnology and Oceanography, Journal of Social and Biological Structures, Human Ecology, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Selection. Currently member of editorial boards of Human Ecology Review, Journal of Bioeconomics, Evolution and Human Behavior, and Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology. President, Society for Human Ecology, 1994-5. Treasurer, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, 1999-2005. Member NAS Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change 1999-2005. President Human Behavior and Evolution Society, 2009-2011.

Honors and Awards: Guggenheim Fellow, 1984; J.I. Staley Prize of The School of American Research (with R. Boyd) for contributions to the human sciences, 1989. Proclamation of Commendation, Lake County CA Board of Supervisors, 2001. Elected Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, 2006. South African Academy of Science Lecturer for 2006. Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007.

Research Interests: Cultural Evolution, Human Ecology, Applied Limnology, Tropical Limnology. National Science Foundation Grants, 1972-1984. Environmental Protection Agency grants and contracts, 1990-2001. NSF grants to study laboratory models of cultural evolution 2003-2008.

David Sloan Wilson is president of ProSocial World and SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, through ProSocial World and in his own research and writing.  A complete archive of his work is available at www.David SloanWilson.world. His most recent books include his first novel, Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III, and a memoir, A Life Informed by Evolution.