Brave Laughter: The Years of the Story Tellers

DAVID LOYE Behind the books of David Loye lies an unusual career path. While a very young news correspondent with the U.S.Navy in the closing years of World War II, he docked and roamed the same ports in South America that Charles Darwin, as a similarly very young man, visited one hundred years earlier on the famous voyage of the Beagle. He became a television newsman during the Edward R. Murrow days. He wrote the national award-winning The Healing of a Nation and gained his doctorate in psychology in early middle age. While a Princeton and UCLA School of Medicine faculty member, he was the research director for major studies of political values, the use of the brain and mind in prediction, and the impact of movies and television on adults. For the past twenty years he has been mainly involved with other scientists from around the world in development of the new fields of evolutionary systems science, chaos and complexity theory, and in studies of Darwin¿s life and works from these advanced new scientific perspectives. He is a co-founder of two international organizations for advanced evolution studies; a co-founder with his wife and partner¿ evolution theorist and well-known author of The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler¿of The Center for Partnership Studies; and founder of The Darwin Project (www.thedarwinproject.com), with a Council of more than 50 leading American, European, and Asian scientists, educators, and media activists. Loye is the author of The Leadership Passion, The Knowable Future, The Sphinx and the Rainbow, An Arrow through Chaos, Darwin¿s Lost Theory of Love, and editor of The Evolutionary Outrider: The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution, and The Great Adventure: Toward a Fully Human Theory of Evolution. Among publishers for his books are Norton, Wiley, Jossey-Bass, New Science Library, Park Street Press, Bantam Books, Delacorte, Praeger, Adamantine, Gordon & Breach, the State University of New York (SUNY Press), and publishers in Japan, China, Italy, the Netherlands, and three publishers in Germany. His new six-book Darwin Anniversary cycle is the product of two decades of work with fellow members of the General Evolution Research Group, of which he was a co-founder, and the International Society of Systems Sciences on advanced studies of evolution. His systems scientific reconstruction of the long ignored ¿rest of Darwin¿¿and its corroboration by progressive biologists and brain, social and systems scientists¿has been hailed by leading scientists and other scholars as a major contribution to our understanding of Darwin, evolution, and the challenge facing our species in the 21st century.Loye, David is the author of 'Brave Laughter: The Years of the Story Tellers', published 2007 under ISBN 9780978982737 and ISBN 0978982738.