Love is a most important part of evolution.

Darwin’s greatest theory about Love was obscured by the viewpoint of ‘survival of the fittest” that imperialism used to justify exploits, despite it having been mentioned only twice in Darwin’s book “the Descent of Man.”

It’s time for change & healing. Darwin writes of “Love” 95 times in that same book.

David Loye explores this in Darwin’s Lost Theory of Love: A Healing Vision for the 21st Century. 

Here’s something that turns “survival of the fittest” upside-down and right-side-up to evolution towards morality, Darwinian Directions for Moral Evolution.

• Selfishness evolves towards Altruism…
• Moral relativity towards moral universality…
• Moralism to Morality…
• Savagery to Civilization…
• Brutal treatment of women to respect for women…
• slavery to freedom…
• natural selection to orgnanic choice and random variation…

Book description of Darwin’s Lost Theory of Love: A Healing Vision for the 21st Century:

Darwin’s Lost Theory of Love is the story of the discovery of a major theory of Darwin’s that has been ignored for over 100 years. Focusing on the impact on our evolution of love, sex and moral sensitivity rather than selfishness and survival of the fittest, this theory wholly contradicts both the scientific and the popular portrait of Darwin prevailing over the 20th century.

Based on page after page of Darwin’s own long ignored writings, it includes his overlooked uncovering of a third major process of evolution that offers new hope for humanity during the 21st century.

A former member of the Princeton and UCLA School of Medicine faculties, cofounder of the General Evolution Research Group and author of the award-winning The Healing of a Nation, Loye is a widely respected social scientist.

Among well-known scientists and evolution theorists of many fields who have read and endorse the book are general evolution theorist Ervin Laszlo, brain scientist Paul MacLean, and biologist Humberto Maturana.

Please come back and visit if you are as fascinated as I am about Darwin’s lost theory on love and how it is part of evolution. I hope to share more of my explorations in this book.