Book Description
The overriding challenge for our species during the 21st century, many believe, will be that of evolving...or becoming extinct. Can the theory of evolution be expanded into a source of guidance that could help our species save itself? This collection brings together the thinking of scholars in a wide range of fields in social as well as natural science directed to this end.
About the Author
DAVID LOYE is a social psychologist, futurist, and developer of a new theory of moral transformation. His many books include The Healing of a Nation which won the Anisfield-Wolfe award for the best scholarly book on race relations in 1971. A former member of the psychology faculty of Princeton University, Loye for nearly a decade was a professor in the research series and Director of Research for the Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and the Future at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is a co-founder of the Center for Partnership Studies, the Society for the Study of Chaos Theory in Psychology, and the General Evolution Research Group.
The Evolutionary Outrider: The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution Essays honouring Ervin Laszlo FROM THE PUBLISHER
The overriding challenge for our species during the 21st century, many believe, will be that of evolving...or becoming extinct. Can the theory of evolution be expanded into a source of guidance that could help our species save itself? This collection brings together the thinking of scholars in a wide range of fields in social as well as natural science directed to this end.
SYNOPSIS
Illustrates how the theory of evolution can be expanded into a source of social guidance.
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Sixteen essays stress the importance of evolution to the grounding of all science and attempt to work towards a theory of evolution which takes into account the expanded cortical and cultural capacities of humans. Decrying current evolutionary thinking as being geared towards specifically pre-human organisms, the articles discuss such issues as: the human ability to intervene in evolution, the self-organizing behavior of the human brain, Laszlo's quantum-vacuum interaction field theory, the Gaia hypothesis, the misuse of Darwinian theory, cultural evolution in the U.S., and possible economic evolutionary interventions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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