II.
Books on Darwin and Darwin’s Theory
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A.
Darwin’s Life and Works
 Darwin:
the life of a Tormented Evolutionist.
Desmond,
A., and Moore, J.
New
York: Norton, 1994.
A
masterpiece for the genre and the single most important book for
the library of every
Darwinian. Makes
Darwin and his times come to life like no other.
Darwin
2nd Edition.
Goldie,
P., and Ghiselin, M.
San
Francisco: Lightbinders, Inc., 1997.
A
CD-ROM containing major books including The Origin of Species,
The Descent of
Man, The
Voyage of the Beagle, and key papers by Darwin. With gorgeous
plates of the wild
life Darwin encountered on the voyage of the Beagle along with audio
bird calls, this is an
exceptionally useful instrument for Darwinian research or exploring
the Darwinian
world.
Darwin
on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity.
Gruber,
H., and Barrett, P.
Chicago:
University of Chicago, 1980.
The
pioneering breakthrough to Darwin as psychologist. Also most readily
available source
for invaluable early notebooks.
Darwin,
His Daughter, and Human Evolution.
Keynes,
R.
New
York: Riverhead, 2001.
A
loving portrayal of Darwin’s home life and family by his great
grandson.
Darwin’s
Lost Theory of Love.
Loye,
D.
New York: iUniverse, 2000.
Internet
POD publication of the first book on the discovery of the lost theory.
To be
replaced
by Darwin’s Unfolding Revolution
when completed for traditional trade book publication.
Darwin
and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior.
Richards,
R. J.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1987.
A
masterpiece of scholarship, witty, pioneering, extremely readable
study of Darwin’s
theory
of the moral sense along with other neglected moral theories of
early major figures
for
psychology.
Darwin's Lost Theory
Hard-driving singer, band leader, and rebel intellect Mat Callahan
writes from Switzerland, “The website is great. But where do I find
Darwin's lost theory? What specific books?”
Dear Mat: See section of this Library and Book Store for Darwin's “Lost”
Theory.
As I report in my forthcoming book Darwin's Unfolding Revolution (to be
published in this segment of this website serially in chapters for
download each month) in all of the 20th century I could find only four
people who wrote of it at any length or with any depth of understanding. The most comprehensive account is Peter Kropotkin's – see Darwin's Lost
Theory in this Library and Book Store. Later came the accounts of John
Greene (see also General Evolution Theory and Story), Robert J. Richards
(see also Moral Evolution in Useful Books for Exploring...), and James
Rachels (see Recommended New and Old Books).
These are all parts of chapters in books on other subjects. Darwin's own
account is exceptionally difficult to follow in the original sources as
it is scattered throughout his early notebooks (see Gruber and Barrett
here in Books on Darwin and Darwin's Theory) and The Descent of Man (see
Goldie's Darwin Second Edition in the same section), also books by
Richards and Loye in this section.
My book Darwin's Lost Theory of Love was the first whole book to
exclusively focus on it and show how it wholly contradicts the survival
of the fittest and selfishness thrust for first-half Darwinism,
providing the second or completing half for Darwin's theory attuned to
humanistic psychology and emphasizing moral sensitivity, love, and
education as the prime drivers for human evolution -- see Darwin's Lost
Theory here and Books, Loye's Page for journal articles.
In The Great Adventure: Toward a Fully Human Theory of Evolution (in
this website, see Book in The Great Adventure segment; Useful Books for
Exploring... in this Library and Bookstore; and Books, Loye's page) can
be found many books corroborating Darwin's long neglected vision. The
great brain scientist Paul MacLean's The Triune Brain in Evolution in
particular provides the point for point corroboration for Darwin's
higher half in terms of the evolution of higher limbic system and
frontal lobes – see Brain under Useful Books for Exploring the 15 Levels
of Evolution and General Evolution Theory and Story.
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B. Darwin’s
“Lost” Theory— that is, the second half, moral
developmental, or humanistic completion for his theory
The
Descent of Man.
Darwin,
C.
There
are many editions but none wholly satisfactory. Best for the time
being is the second edition
published in the Goldie and Ghiselin CD-ROM, see above.
Early
Notebooks.
Darwin,
C.
Most
easily accessible source is Gruber and Barrett, Darwin on Man, see
above.
Ethics:
Origins and Development.
Kropotkin,
P.
New
York: Dial Press, 1924; Black Rose Pres, 1997.
A neglected work of exceptional importance, this was the only book
in the 20th century
until Robert
Richards’ Darwin to focus at any discerning length on what
The Great
Adventurereveals
was the second, completing or “top” half for Darwin’s theory of
evolution.
Darwin’s
Unfolding Revolution.
Loye,
D.
See
http://thedarwinproject.com/revolution/revolution.html, Darwin's Unfolding Revolution for serial publication by
monthly chapter downloads.
Darwin
and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior.
Richards,
R.
See
above
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C. Darwin’s
Truncated Theory —that is, the first half, pre-moral developmental,
or pre-humanistic beginning for his theory
The
Survival of Charles Darwin.
Clark,
R. W.
New
York: Random House, 1984.
An
excellent account in so-called “layperson’s terms”
of the colorful, engaging, and vital development
of neoDarwinian or “first half” theory by Darwin’s
early 20th century
successors.
The
Origin of Species.
Darwin,
C.
Numerous
editions are available, for example among the “oldies,” the Encylopedia
Britannica
Great Books series. A more recent collector’s item is a facsimile
of the first edition
edited by famous neoDarwinian evolution theorist Ernst Mayr published
by
Harvard
University Press.
Mankind
Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species.
Dobzhansky,
T.
New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
This
is the readable account preferred by many scientists by one of the
greatest of the neoDarwinian
theorists – who tried unsuccessfully to get across to his
fellow biologists that cultural
evolution, not biological evolution, was what mattered at the human
level.
The
Structure of Evolutionary Theory.
Gould,
S. J.
Cambridge:
Harvard Belknap Press, 2002.
The
enormous book into which, shortly before he died, Gould tossed just
about
everything
about “first half” theory as it was pummeled, puzzled,
hashed and battled over
for
much of the 20th century.
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