David Sloan Wilson (born 1949) is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University.

[3] Wilson moved back to the United States and held an assistant professorship in the Division of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Davis, from 1977 to 1980.

He served as an assistant and then associate professor at the Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Zoology of Michigan State University from 1980 to 1988.

Wilson started the Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) program at Binghamton University to unify diverse disciplines under the theory of evolution.

[4] Wilson's book Darwin's Cathedral proposes that religions are primarily group-level adaptations that evolve by cultural group selection.

Wilson is editor in chief of Prosocial World's online magazine This View of Life, which features articles on all topic areas from an evolutionary perspective.

Wilson's latest nonfiction book for a general audience is This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution, published in 2019.