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myself and Riane Eisler, who joined him in co-foundeding the General Evolution Research Group.Widely considered the world’s foremost general evolution theorist, Laszlo, with mesmerizing eyes laid out before us his immensely daring plan.Within science chaos theory was just beginning to take hold. Laszlo’s proposal was that we use the new power and popularity of scientific chaos theory to see if it could be used to effect a crucial update for evolution theory.We would band together to see if we could come up with something to end the long entrenched reign of the bloody, ostensibly Darwinian “survival of the fittest” mindset, then driving Russia and the United States and all the rest of us toward destruction. Our goal was to see if out of the minds and work of more of us from many fields and countries we could update evolution theory from what it wasn’t to what it could, should, and now increasingly had to become.Quietly, at first secretly and then more openly drawn together from both sides of the Iron Curtain, our group and close associates came to include scientists from both natural (i.e., physics and biology) and social science (e.g., psychology, sociology, economics and political science). From that first gathering of a dozen of us— from Russia and Hungary on their side, from England, Finland, and the U.S. from our side— GERG, which out of much merriment became our playful acronym, rapidly expanded. Including both Fred and Ralph Abraham, Allan Combs, Ruth Richards, and Stanley Krippner, as well as Riane Eisler and myself, our advancd2