David Elliot Loye (April 26, 1925 – January 25, 2022) was an American author,

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, and

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scientist.

Early life

Born in

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, Loye served in

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in the

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under the writer

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. Their division was involved in writing projects associated with the

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. After the war, he completed his undergraduate education at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

in writing and psychology. There, his poetry classes with

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deeply influenced him. He returned to

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and worked with journalist Frank McGee at WKYTV.

Career

Loye went on to become the editor of ''

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'' magazine before moving to Princeton New Jersey in 1960. While there he began attending the

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and ultimately earned a master's degree and a doctorate in psychology. Loye wrote the national award-winning ( Anisfield-Wolfe Award, 1972) book, ''The Healing of a Nation'',. This book focused on history and solutions to healing the "sickness" of racism in America. During this time Loye moved to a job with the Educational Testing Services in

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. After his Phd was awarded he began a short-term position at

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(1970-1971), Before moving to

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to become a

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Research Director for the Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and Neuropsychiatric Institute (1971–78). Along with Roderic Gorney and

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, Loye developed the groundwork for the study on television violence its impact of mass entertainment on evolution and human survival. In the 1980s Loye moved to Carmel, California and transitioned to full-time writing and research on the evolution within society in a social context. He worked with his partner and wife,

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, along with evolution theorist

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on concepts of a cooperatively oriented theory of evolution. These three, along with others, became co-founders of the multinational

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and ''World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution'', of which Loye is a former book review editor and continuing member of the editorial board.

Charles Darwin

In the 1990s Loye wrote about

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’s case for moral evolution rather than the "survival of the fittest/

selfish gene theory With gene defined as "not just one single physical bit of DNA utall replicas of a particular bit of DNA distributed throughout the world", the gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory ...

" mindset as a higher order prime driver for human evolution. Of his book ''Darwin’s Lost Theory'', internationally eminent scientist

has written: "...everyone concerned with our understanding of evolution on this planet owes Loye a deep debt of gratitude... Of urgent importance to the intellectual discourse of our time... ehas brought his unique erudition to an enormous and critical task, and carried it off with genius...Should cause a revolution in social theory...Dramatically changes our understanding of Darwin and of evolution itself...One of the major books of the early Twenty-First Century".

Personal life and death

Loye married twice, first to Billy Henslee Loye, and secondly to author

. He had four children. Loye died in

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on January 25, 2022, at the age of 96.

Honors

Anisfield-Wolfe Book Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is an American literary award dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to the understanding of racism and the appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture. Established in 1935 by Clev ...

for best scholarly book on race relations, 1971 *The Moral Pioneering Award of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, presentation by Fred Abraham, President, 1993. *Award for Dedication "to the knowledge of what matters most to future life" by the Foundation for Ethics and Meaning, presentation by Bruce Novak, President, 2000. *Honorary Doctorate by the pioneering institution for humanistic psychology and systems science, the

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, presentation by Lorne Buchman, President, 2008.

Books

* 1971. ''The Healing of a Nation''. New York: Norton. * 1977. ''The Leadership Passion: A Psychology of Ideology''. San Francisco, CA.: Jossey-Bass. (IUniverse reprint: ) * 1978. ''The Knowable Future: A Psychology of Forecasting and Prophecy''. New York: Wiley-Interscience. * 1983. ''The Sphinx and the Rainbow: Brain, Mind and Future Vision.'' Boston: Shambhala New Science Library. (IUniverse reprint ) * (Ed.) 1998. ''The Evolutionary Outrider: The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution.'' Twickenham, England: Adamantine Press; Westport, CT: Praeger. *1990. Eisler, Riane and D. Loye. ''The Partnership Way: New tools for living and learning, healing our families, our world'' (a practical companion for ''

The Chalice and the Blade ''The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future'' is a 1987 book by Riane Eisler. The author presents a conceptual framework for studying social systems with particular attention to how a society constructs roles and relations between the f ...

''). San Francisco. Harper. 242pp. *2000. ''An Arrow Through Chaos: How We See Into the Future.'' Rochester, VT.: Park Street Press. * (Ed.) 2004. ''The Great Adventure: toward fully human theory of evolution''. Albany, SUNY Press. * 2007. ''Bankrolling Evolution: A Program for a President.'' Carmel, CA.: Benjamin Franklin Press. * 2007. ''Measuring Evolution: A Leadership Guide to the Health and Wealth of Nations.'' Carmel, CA.: Benjamin Franklin Press. * 2007. ''Darwin’s Lost Theory: Who We Really Are and Where We’re Going.'' Carmel, CA.: Benjamin Franklin Press. * 2007. ''Darwin on Love.'' Carmel, CA.: Benjamin Franklin Press. * 2007. ''The River and the Star: the lost story of the great explorers of the better world.'' Benjamin Franklin Press, 456 pp. * 2010. ''Darwin's Lost Theory: Bridge to a Better World.'' pdated third edition Carmel, CA: Benjamin Franklin Press. *2010 ''Darwin’s Second Revolution.'' Carmel CA, Benjamin Franklin Press. 242pp.

References

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