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January 14, 2005|Volume 33, Number 15|Two-Week Issue



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David Sloan Wilson



Evolution is theme of scientist's Terry Lectures

"Evolution for Everyone" is the theme of this year's Dwight H. Terry Lectures, which will be presented by David Sloan Wilson, professor of biological sciences at the State University of New York's (SUNY) Binghamton University.

The series of four lectures will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Luce Hall lecture hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The individual talk titles and dates are: Tuesday, Jan. 18 -- "A Sociological Breakthrough"; Thursday, Jan. 20 -- "Groups as Organisms and Organisms as Groups"; Tuesday, Jan. 25 -- "The Human Social Organism"; and Thursday, Jan. 27 -- "Applied Evolutionary Theory." The lecture series is free and open to the public. Call (203) 432-7280 for more information.

Wilson, who has a joint appointment in anthropology at SUNY, is also director of EvoS, a program founded in 2003 that seeks to make evolutionary theory part of the common discourse for all subjects relevant to human affairs and the natural world.

He originally planned to be an aquatic biologist but soon discovered that evolutionary theory provided a way to study the full pageant of life. His theoretical approach enabled him to conduct research on a diversity of subjects and organisms, from microbes to humans, and to publish in anthropology, biology, economics, philosophy, psychology and religion journals.

Wilson is author of "The Natural Selection of Populations and Communities," "Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior" (with philosopher Elliott Sober) and "Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society." He is co-editor of the forthcoming book "The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative" (with Jonathan Gottschall).

Wilson is a past Guggenheim Fellow (1986), vice president of the American Society of Naturalists (1997) and the 2003 recipient of SUNY's Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.

The Terry Lectureship brings to Yale speakers to discuss religion and its application to human welfare in the light of scientific knowledge and philosophical insights. The lectureship was established in 1905 by a gift from Dwight Harrington Terry of Bridgeport, Connecticut.


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