David Sloan Wilson

Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society is a 2002 book by David Sloan Wilson which proposes that religion is a multi-level adaptation—i.e., a product of cultural evolution developed through multi-level selection.

David Sloan Wilson, one of the world’s leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth’s creatures?The key to understanding the existence of altruism, Wilson argues, is by understanding …