By Rich Fisher
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Tulsa, OK – Today we chat with David Sloan Wilson, the SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. Wilson is known for his contributions to evolutionary science and for explaining evolution to the general public, but his new book --- which we're discussing today --- moves in a different direction. That book is "The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time." As a reviewer of this volume has noted in Publishers Weekly: "The Neighborhood Project [is an] an organization Wilson founded to rejuvenate his hometown of Binghamton, New York.... [This likewise-titled book] uses evolutionary theories to analyze behavioral data and improve quality of life.... [It's] pleasurable [to read, and it provides] evidence for how lives, like ideas, intersect in fascinating ways."