Compassion and Altruism from an Integrated Evolutionary Perspective, David Sloan Wilson Meng Wu Lecture

Fully rounded research programs in the biological sciences ask four questions, concerning function, mechanism, development, and phylogeny, which mutually inform each other. The same approach is needed for all human-related subjects, including compassion and altruism. He will illustrate these foundational points with examples from his research on multilevel selection, religion, and prosociality in everyday life.