D’Lynn Waldron has taken an interest in formulating theories in the biological sciences since she was a small child, and was far ahead of her time in writing about the biochemistry of emotions, moods and dispositions, and the Genetic Imperative to multiply to the maximum which is the engine of evolution. Every species has evolved its own strategies to multiply to the maxim. Dr. Waldron has proposed that part of humankind's strategy is competition to the death, winner take all, which explains the human obsession with weapons and passion for war, and why war so often involves rape and genocide. (See publisher correspondence below.)
Beginning in grade school in the 1940's, D'Lynn Waldron tried to tell teachers that there were many other substances, in addition to adrenaline, that create our emotions.
In the 1960's D'Lynn insisted in university seminars that biochemicals, influenced by genetics, conditioning, and health, create our dispositions, moods, and emotions, and saying this was scientific heresy back then.
Dr. Waldron further argued that we have genetically preprogrammed biochemical responses which control our emotions and thus our behavior, in order to influence us to do the things that allowed our ancestors to survive and multiply.
Dr. Waldron said that the engine of evolution was the inborn drive to multiply one's own kind to the maximum, which she called The Genetic Imperative.
Every species has evolved its own strategies to multiply to the maxim. D'Lynn proposes part of humankind's strategy is competition to the death, winner take all, which explains the human obsession with weapons and passion for war, and why war so often involves rape and genocide..
Dr. Waldron argues that unless we accept this instinct for war and genocide we will never be able to control that instinct rationally, and if we do not control it, the human race is headed for self-destruction.
Below are two letters from Norton Books. In the first letter dated March 1984, Norton says it very much wants to see the entire manuscript of Dr. Waldron’s book “The Biochemical Origins of Emotions, Moods and Dispositions”.
Unfortunately a political problem with the Greek government, described elsewhere on this Web site, resulted in the Greek government taking away the only copies of Dr. Waldron's typescript and research papers, on the preposterous assumption that these scientific papers were somehow connected to British and American intelligence operations against pro-Communist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou’s government, which was allowing terrorists to operate out of Greece.
When Dr. Waldron returned to the States in May of 1984, she immediately became involved in developing the computer hardware and software to turn her original 128 Mac into the graphics and publishing powerhouse it is today. Her time was fully taken up with research and development and writing over 1000 technical articles and reviews on computer-related subjects (some of the more recent of which can be referenced in search engines.) When Dr. Waldron finally got around to writing Norton a proposal to reconstruct the book lost in 1984, Norton responded in 1995 that what she had to say was no longer new and different. Dr. Waldron found this a satisfying justification of her theories which for decades were considered scientific heresy.
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