“Utterly fascinating and beautifully written.... [Wilson] addresses deep questions about humanity: how we can avoid physical or mental illnesses, raise children, make groups more effective, create sustainable economies and nurture better planetary stewards.... This View of Life should...be on everyone’s bedside table - company heads and policymakers included. I’ll be leaving a copy in the rented cottage outside Bristol where I am staying, confident that it will change future guests’ own view of life.” (Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Nature)

“Splendid.... An excellent argument that evolution applies to culture as well as organisms.... [Wilson is] a masterful educator.” (Kirkus)

“David Sloan Wilson has long been one of the most visionary and trail-blazing evolutionary biologists around, forcing the field to recognize that evolutionary change occurs from far more than selection solely at the level of the gene. In This View of Life, he explores the various surprising things that ‘evolution’ is and isn’t, and its relevance to everything from everyday life to global policy decisions. It’s thick with ideas and insights, written in a graceful, accessible style.” (Robert Sapolsky, New York Times best-selling author of Behave and professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University)