The Evolutionary Outrider: The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution, Essays Honouring Ervin Laszlo (Praeger Studies on the 21st Century)

Loye, David

ISBN 10: 0275964086 / ISBN 13: 9780275964085

Published by Praeger (UK), 1998

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Illustrates how the theory of evolution can be expanded into a source of social guidance. Editor(s): Loye, David; Laszlo, Ervin. Series: Praeger Studies on the 21st Century. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; RGC; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 608. . 1998. First Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Evolutionary Outrider: The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution, Essays Honouring Ervin Laszlo (Praeger Studies on the 21st Century)
• Publisher: Praeger (UK)
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0275964086
• ISBN 13: 9780275964085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

Moving beyond a critique of neo-Darwinism and sociobiology to explore the action implications of new theory―including Loye's reconstruction of the long ignored full vision of Charles Darwin and Laszlo's new QVI fifth field theory―essays explore the potential for the impact of self-organizing and self-regulating organism, of the biology of love, and the moral directional thrust of the human, as revealed in new discoveries in the fields of biology, psychology, brain research, sociology, economics, history, cultural evolution, and Darwinian re-evaluation. As such, the collection will be of interest to the educational community, the futurist community, and the more general global foresight community of concerned people.

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.