Howard Bloom

American author and music industry publicist turned science writer — author of The Lucifer Principle (1995) and Global Brain (2000) — who developed theories of group selection, meme evolution, and the social nature of biology.

Creates a sociobiological framework integrating evolutionary psychology, history, and cosmology — Bloom's Lucifer Principle (that evil is a natural byproduct of group selection, not individual pathology) challenged individualist explanations of human violence.