The book refers to a number of John Stewart’s scientific articles and other writing. It suggests that readers who wish to explore the relevant ideas in greater depth should consider reading the original publications.

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(2022). The Evolution and Development of Consciousness: The Subject-Object Emergence Hypothesis, Biosystems, 217: 104687.

(2020). Towards a general theory of the major cooperative evolutionary transitions, BioSystems, 198: 104237.

(2019a). The Origins of Life: The Managed-Metabolism Hypothesis, Foundations of Science, 24, 171–195.

(2019b). The Trajectory of Evolution and Its Implications for Humanity, Journal of Big History 3, 141 – 155.

(2018). Evolutionary Possibilities: Can a society be constrained so that ‘The Good’ self-organizes? World Futures 74, 1-35.

(2017). Enlightenment and the Evolution of the Material World. Spanda Journal, Vol VII, 1, 107-114.

(2016). Review of Dialectical Thinking for Integral Leaders: A Primer, by Otto Laske. Integral Leadership Review.

(2015), The Self-Organizing Society: A Grower’s Guide. ECCO Working paper 2015-12.

(2014). The direction of evolution: The rise of cooperative organisation, BioSystems, 123: 27-36.

(2010). The meaning of life in a developing universe, Foundations of Science, 15, 395-409.

(2008). The Evolutionary Manifesto.

(2007). The future evolution of consciousness, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14, 58-92.

(2001). Future psychological evolution, Journal of Dynamical Psychology.

(2000). Evolution’s Arrow: the direction of evolution and the future of humanity. Chapman Press, Canberra.

(1997a). The evolution of genetic cognition, Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, 20, 53-73.

(1997b). Evolutionary transitions and artificial life, Artificial Life 3, 101-120.

(1997c). Evolutionary Progress, Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, 20, 335-62.

(1995). Metaevolution, Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, 18, 113-114.

(1993). The maintenance of sex, Evolutionary Theory, 10, 195-202.