INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 831 Amsterdam, February 6th, 2020 SAVING THE WORLD THROUGH DARWIN 2.0 - Review of David Loye's "Rediscovering Darwin" - FRANK VISSER Loye's main thesis is that we know only the first half of Darwin's theory, much to the detriment of our world, which is suffering from violence, sexism, pollution and all other modern ailments, and we need the other half to save that world, leading, among others, to a more egalitarian view of male/female relationships. The first half is spelled out in Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859): the world is a jungle in which only the strongest survive. In modern discourse this has been translated into social Darwinism, the selfish gene, and might makes right. Much less known, says Loye, is that in The Descent of Man (1871), in which human evolution (and sexual selection) was dealt with, a much more positive worldview is sketched: humanity can only evolve by moral progress, increased compassion for others and the refinement of our character. Only when that message is heard, Loye believes, will our world situation improve and can a wholesale nuclear or climate change based annihilation be avoided. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser159.html