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"Tipton Ford is a small unincorporated community in Newton County, Missouri, United States, and located at the intersection of Interstate 49 and Route 175. The community is part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community lies on the northeast bank of Shoal Creek and is 3.5 miles west- southwest of the George Washington Carver National Monument.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 60 History A post office called Tipton Ford was established in 1890, and remained in operation until 1923. The community was named for a ford across Shoal Creek near the home of the Tipton family. In August 1914, tragedy struck Tipton Ford, when a Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad locomotive collided with another train, a result of faulty communication. Thirty-eight passengers and five crew members were killed. From 1906 to 1946, the M&NA; provided passenger and freight service from Joplin to Helena in eastern Arkansas. References Unincorporated communities in Newton County, Missouri Joplin, Missouri, metropolitan area Unincorporated communities in Missouri "
"Skewen railway station serves the village of Skewen, south Wales. It is located below street level at Station Road in Skewen, from (via Stroud). It is a stop on the South Wales Main Line, served by Transport for Wales Swanline regional trains between Swansea and Cardiff, which typically run every two hours. There is no Sunday service. Facilities The station has 2 platforms: *Platform 1, for westbound trains towards Swansea *Platform 2, for eastbound trains towards Cardiff Central The station is unmanned; there is no ticket office or platform barrier. Passengers must buy their tickets from the conductor on the train. Amenities provided include waiting shelters, customer help points, digital CIS displays and timetable poster boards. Step-free access is available on both platforms via ramps from the car park and road above.Skewen station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 5 April 2017 History The first station here was opened in 1882 by the Great Western Railway as Dynevor and renamed in 1904. It was resited a little to the east in 1910 and closed by the Western Region of British Railways in 1964. The present station was opened to the west as part of the Swanline initiative in 1994. Services The typical service pattern is one train approximately every two hours in each direction, with some peak period extras. Trains operate mainly to Cardiff and Swansea, but some westbound services continue to , and . No trains stop here on Sundays. A normal weekday service operates on most bank holidays. References External links Railway stations in Neath Port Talbot Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1882 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1910 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1910 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1994 Reopened railway stations in Great Britain South Wales Main Line Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail Beeching closures in Wales "
"David Sloan Wilson (born 1949) is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is a son of the author Sloan Wilson and co-founder of the Evolution Institute. Academic career Wilson graduated with a B.A. with high honors in 1971 from the University of Rochester. He then completed his Ph.D. in 1975 at Michigan State University. He then worked as a Research Fellow in the Biological Laboratories at Harvard University from 1974-1975. He then held a dual position as a Research Associate in Zoology at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Washington from 1975 to 1976. After this he was a Senior Research Officer at the South African National Research Institute for the Mathematical Sciences from 1976 to 1977. 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 then 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 was then promoted to full Professor of Biological Sciences at the State University of New York, Binghamton, in 1988. He was then given a joint appointment as Professor of Anthropology in 2001. Wilson started the Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) program at Binghamton University to provide a program that unifies diverse disciplines under the theory of evolution. Students in the program take evolution-themed courses in a variety of disciplines including biology, anthropology, psychology, bioengineering, philosophy, religion and the psychology of religion. There is also a required course called "Current Topics in Evolutionary Studies", where students attend weekly seminars with a discussion followed afterward. SUNY New Paltz has started a similar program. Research Wilson is a prominent proponent of the concept of group selection (also known as multi-level selection) in evolution. He and Elliott Sober proposed a framework called multilevel selection theory, which incorporates the more orthodox approach of gene-level selection and individual selection, in their book Unto Others. This framework argues that while genes serve as the means by which organisms' designs are transmitted across generations, individuals and groups are vehicles for those genes and both are arenas for genes to act on. Indeed, genes themselves can be affected by selection, not just because of their effects on the design of their vehicle (the organism) but also because of their effect on the functioning of the DNA on which they reside. Hence the notion of multilevel selection. Wilson has also coined the concept of a trait- group, a group of organisms linked not permanently as a group but having a shared fate due to interactions that they have. Wilson has described himself as an "enthusiastic proponent" of the extended evolutionary synthesis."David Sloan Wilson Interview". Retrieved July 1, 2018. Publications * Unto Others (1998) co-edited with Elliott Sober. (Proposition of a framework called multilevel selection theory, which incorporates the more orthodox approach of gene-level selection and individual selection). * Darwin's Cathedral (2002) (Religion as a multi-level adaptation). * Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology (2006) co-edited with E. O. Wilson * Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives (2007) * The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time (2011) * Pathological Altruism (2011) co-edited with Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, and Guruprasad Madhavan. * Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others (2015) * The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative (2005) co-edited with Jonathan Gottschall * This View of Life Completing the Darwinian Revolution, Pantheon Books, [2019] Wilson's book Darwin's Cathedral proposes that religion is a multi-level adaptation, a product of cultural evolution developed through a process of multi-level selection for more cooperative and cohesive groups. His book Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives attempts to give an introduction to evolution for a broad audience, detailing the various ways in which evolution can be applied to everyday affairs. There is also a class at Binghamton University that is called "Evolution for Everyone", and students are required to read the book as part of the class. Wilson's book for a general audience is The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time, published in August 2011. Wilson also co-edited Pathological Altruism published by Oxford University Press in November 2011 with Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, and Guruprasad Madhavan. Wilson and his co-author E. O. Wilson have become well known for the quote, "Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary". This quotation appeared in their paper, "Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology". Wilson is a blogger for the ScienceBlogs, where he extensively discusses and defends both the theory of evolution and his multilevel selection model. Wilson's latest book for a general audience is This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution, published in 2019. The evolutionary biologist builds on decades of research to outline a paradigm-changing new approach to the applications of evolutionary theory in today's social and cultural institutions. References External links * Wilson's personal homepage * "Darwin's God" article in New York Times Magazine for March 4, 2007. Includes interview with Wilson. * "Evolution: Survival of the selfless" article written with E. O. Wilson in New Scientist, 03 November, 2007 * EVOS Evolutionary Studies Program at Binghamton University Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology 1949 births Living people American geneticists Binghamton University faculty Extended evolutionary synthesis State University of New York faculty American atheists University of Rochester alumni Michigan State University alumni Harvard University staff Cognitive science of religion University of California, Davis faculty "