The Darwin Project

Following my years at UCLA, I joined the under-financed but immeasurably liberated global ranks of the independent scholar. Out of my involvement in evolution studies, in 1986 I became a co-founder of the General Evolution Research Group. Ours became a multinational and multidisciplinary group of independent scholars interested in updating and expanding evolution theory with the rich new avenues offered by cybernetics, chaos, complexity, and self-organizing theories. Out of this involvement with chaos theory, in 1991 I became a co-founder of the similarly multinational Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences.

Then in 2005 I became the founder of The Darwin Project (www.thedarwinproject.com), with a Council of over fifty leading American, European, and Asian scientists and educators.  Our goal was, and is, to help end the prevailing fixation on the degrading and disastrous so-called Darwinian theory of “survival of the fittest” with a shift to a fully human, action-oriented Darwinian theory of emphasis on moral sensitivity, education, and love as the primary driver for human evolution.