David Loye

David Loye is an internationally known psychologist, evolutionary systems scientist, author of thirty books including the national award winning The Healing of a Nation and Darwin’s Lost Theory. Originally a very young newsman in the Edward R. Murrow days, he became a scientist in his 40s, member of the Princeton and UCLA School of Medicine faculties, and co-founder of three international organizations for updating and expanding evolution studies: The General Evolution Research Group, The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, and with cultural evolution theorist and well-known author of The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler, The Center for Partnership Studies (www.partnershipway.org).

Over the past 30 years he has been involved with scientists in many fields and countries in developing the cutting edge fields of chaos, complexity, integral, and evolutionary systems theory (see www.davidloye.com). He is best known for his discovery of the long buried higher order love and moral sense rest of Darwin’s theory versus the survival of the fittest, selfish gene, and now winner versus loser mindset driving our species and planet toward destruction.

His pioneering study of Darwin grew out of the development of his moral transformation theory along with three final books on Darwin. A notable fact about creativity at an advanced age is that he completed and published this book at 93, with two more underway. Rediscovering Darwin, is stripped down to the gripping story of the discovery of the long buried higher order rest of Darwin’s theory of evolution.

After time to complete the next step for this work in progress, Reconstructing Darwin will add the notes, references, index, and wedding of both halves of Darwin’s theory hailed by the remarkable body of scientists, thinkers and activists whose reviews open this book.

Further underway, Revolutionizing Darwin will report the results of Loye’s ongoing development and testing of new ways of measuring and advancing human evolution.

He is a World War II veteran married to a Holocaust survivor—Riane Eisler, of whom he writes in this and other books. They live in California.

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David Loye's latest book is

"Rediscovering Darwin: The Rest of Darwin’s Theory and Why We Need it Today"

(Scheduled for release on Feb 1, 2018)

Hailed as a breakthrough in twelve pages of pre-publication reviews by leading evolutionary thinkers, this new book has been rushed into print for impact in the wake of both the honoring and the dishonoring of Darwin’s and Lincoln’s birthday on February 12.

The book weaves three gripping stories into a compelling single account. First a new perspective on the startling discovery of the long-buried rest of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Then the mystery of how and why it was lost for over 100 years. And now—in the sharp contrast between the recovered rest of Darwin and the worst of Trump—the urgent need for an update in theory and social action.

Haunting in similarity to the threat of nuclear annihilation we face today, Rediscovering Darwin opens during the tension of the Cold War. With the mindset of “survival of the fittest” driving the U.S. and Russia toward nuclear oblivion, a handful of scientists from both sides meet secretly in Budapest.

Psychologist and evolutionary systems scientist David Loye—there in the secret meeting from the U.S. side, and author of this book—takes us into the still little known story of how, in a world desperate for order out of chaos, they decided to see if they could use chaos theory to replace “survival of the fittest” with a better theory of evolution.

In haunting contrast to what became the Darwin of “survival of the fittest,”“selfish genes,” and now the manic rampage of “winners versus losers,” an international advance research group found these six factors to “speed the evolution of our species” in the”lost” rest of Darwin: his long-ignored higher-order understanding of sex, love, community, the drive of the moral sense as primary in evolution, his long-ignored case for spirituality and the place and function of the positive teachings of religion in evolution, and how in what he wrote of “the morality of women,” Darwin even became a cautious forerunner of male support for the women’s movement.

Stage by stage, Rediscovering Darwin shows how, beginning in the 19th century then spanning the 20th into the 21st century, the rest of Darwin was wiped off the slate of history— but is now being reclaimed by a rising alliance of scientists and social activists.

In vivid portraits, many well known by name and the hopeful new excitement of their works and following, one can meet— and get to know and join —Darwin’s new heirs and heiresses opening the way to a better future for our battered species and planet.