ABSTRACT
Synopsis: Charles Darwin’s ideas on evolutionary change were a trigger for the major transformational changes in thinking of our time. Darwin’s followers went on to discover the feedback loops and dynamic relationships through which the interconnected living and physical worlds continually reshape each other. Misconceptions have survived to this day that Darwin considered the evolution of species to be driven by competition, hierarchy and chance. To the contrary, Darwin described the planet’s living systems and the human mind as having evolved through collective, collaborative relationships within the natural environment. Darwin’s followers expanded on collaborative relationships while visionary, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, proposed collective thinking as the next evolutionary step for humankind.
