Darwin's lost theory and its implications for the 21st century |
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Authors: | David Loye |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Medical Education , Yaroslav‐the‐Wise Novgorod State University , Novgorod , Great Russia E-mail: hrucki@mail.ru |
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Abstract: | This paper reports the reconstruction of the long ignored “second half” or human level completion for Darwin's theory of evolution. Pursuing the striking contradictions between what has been attributed to Darwin by his neo‐Darwinian and sociobiological heirs and what he actually said, in ignored sections of The Descent of Man and Darwin's long unpublished notebooks it uncovers a three‐level theory of the moral agent that foreshadows the emergence of 20th century social science and the late 20th century rise of the fields of systems science and humanistic psychology. Implications for a joint venture of natural science and social science in the completion of the humanistic and action‐oriented theory of evolution called for by the species‐threatening challenges of the 21st century are considered. |
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Keywords: | Darwin Descent of Man private notebooks evolution theory theory of the moral sense theory of the moral agent biological foundations psychological foundations systems scientific foundations neo‐Darwinism sociobiology the holoDarwinian alternative |
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