Evolution for Everyone
Archives for August, 2011
The Neighborhood Project: Putting Evolution to Work in the Real World
Posted by David Sloan Wilson on August 28, 2011
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My new book, The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time, was published by Little, Brown last Wednesday and featured on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition today. My main objective in writing the book is to show how evolutionary science can be used to improve our lives in a…
The Meaning of My Mugs
Posted by David Sloan Wilson on August 3, 2011 My wife Anne and I have accumulated an assortment of mugs that occupy a shelf of our kitchen cabinet. All of them perform the same function of holding hot liquid, but we seem to have developed a complex system for using them. Rather than grabbing any two for our morning coffee, I feel impelled to…