ABSTRACT
This chapter is centered around the implications of NDS within the new thinking in evolutionary science that has developed in the past decade. The first section of this chapter begins with the essential concepts underlying Darwin’s Origin of Species, which went unmodified for nearly a century. New paleontological findings suggest that the original theory of evolution had many loose ends, which are thought to be tied up in the new evolutionary paradigm. The new thinking in evolution is referred to as a paradigm by its central proponent because its dynamics extend well beyond the evolution of biological species into the evolution of human and social systems.
