Abstract
Big History traces the cosmologic arc from the Singularity/Big Bang to the present. Similarly, Evolutionary Biology, as ‘all of biology,’ represents the arc of life from its origins, without which there would be no history ‘to speak of.’ There is mechanistic consilience between Quantum Mechanics, The First Principles of Physiology and Evolutionary Biology that is perpetually centered on the unicellular level. The phenotypic adaptations in reaction to geophysical and geochemical changes that culminate in culture are forged at the level of the recapitulating unicellular zygote. This perspective offers a synthesis for the animate and inanimate alike as Big History. And since evolution is always striving to recapitulate the Singularity, it predicts the self-realization of our origin herein as the basis for the short-term Singularity described by David LePoire and other contributors to this collective monograph. The cell as the mechanistic basis for both evolution and Big History offers a novel synthesis for the long-sought Humanism with Science.
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Torday, J.S. (2020). Evolution, the ‘Mechanism’ of Big History, Predicts the Near Singularity. In: Korotayev, A., LePoire, D. (eds) The 21st Century Singularity and Global Futures. World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33730-8_25
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