How a chaotic molecular chemistry was able to give rise to an orderly evolutionary biology, is a staggering journey that is the subject of this page. For that transformative journey that seeks to discover the origins of Life, we bring herein two fundamental trutonian results:

• one, the Collision --the Primeval Initiator and Agent of Creation (PIAC) together with the Pop-Up Principle Of Creation (PUPOC) and, • the other, the Ultimate Marks Of Creation (UMOCs) together with the conditions needed for material evolution (matev) to take place.

We begin our trutonian journey by noting first that, at the cosmological level (cosmolev), the great majority of stars have around them planetary systems, similar to our Sun, holding its formed planets.
As such, in the cosmic space (cospa), there will be a multitude of planets, similar to our Earth, that will revolve around the stars of those planetary star systems.
Therefore, Life, yet to be defined, is by no means unique to Earth. And that is because of the autonomous characteristic of evolution enunciated in 15th UTPOT that emerged from the multitude existential mark of creation (ME-UMOC).

We mark that cosmolev recognition into

#1 The First Principle of Evolutionary Biology (1st PEB)

Life is not a unique phenomenon to Earth, but is a common occurrence to other cosmic planets associated to other stars of the Universe.

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Without yet defining Life, we call Prelife as a precursor candidate of Life. Where such a Prelife candidate could have possible resided?, is the first question that we need to entertain.
Well, Earth at its inception of existence was devoid of a protective atmosphere and, as such, it was completely exposed to the continuous bombardment of the cosmic background radiation (cobar) that it receives. Thus, Prelife, at that beginning stage of Earth's existence, could not possible have emerged on its arid surface. A shield protector (shiprot) of some sort against cobar was needed for the emergence of Prelife to exist.
At the inception of Earth's formation, four primeval chemical (primchem) elements that existed, in the decreasing order of their abundance, are of special interest in here. They are:
Hydrogen (H), Oxygen (O), Carbon (C), and Nitrogen (N).

From the first two chemels, Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O), the molecules of water (H₂O) were able to emerge. As such, the water, as it was taking hold on the Earth's surface, was able gradually to form ponds, lakes, seas, and ultimately the oceans. Any of those aquatic environments would have been able to provide a shiprot for its submerged entities. Thus, only in an aquatic environment, Prelife could have emerged to exist and reside. We mark that pivotal recognition into

#2 The Second Principle of Evolutionary Biology (2nd PEB)

Prelife originated in an aquatic environment. Without the existence of an aquatic environment, Prelife would not have been able to exist.

Corollary to the 2nd PEB Only in planets that can acquire and retain water on their soil, Prelife could have maintained its existence. .

The noted four (4) primeval chemical elements (primchems) of the primeval Earth, after countless aquatic random combinations, were able to produce, by random chance, a variety of complex chemical (comchem) molecules in the created primeval ponds.

Some of those ponds eventually evolved ultimately into oceans. The aquatic environment provided by oceans created a most different aquatic environment than in the ponds. There in the oceans, the comchems molecules have acquired a new remarkable characteristic --the mobility, because of the ocean's currents. In addition, in one or more formed oceans, submerged aquatic volcanos were also part of that oceanic landscape that intermittently released vast amount of energy affecting everything around them. And that strengthened intermittently, big time, their mobility triggering, as such, the most extreme violent collisions (viocols) for the moving comchem molecules.

As a result of those viocols in a high thermal aquatic environment, novel Carbon-Hydrogen chains of chemical structures were being formed having new qualitatively characteristics with respect to their Carbon (C) affinity. Those new chemical pop-ups, called the Prelife pops (prepops), had organic molecular structures.

(A naturally occurring amino acid.)

Some of the primeval of such prepops, with an organic molecular structure, were the amino acids. Chains of amino acids by further combining around a central Carbon (C) atom generated additional novel chemical structures with the most notable ones being the protein. The Prelife platform (prePLAT) housing the organic prepops was born.

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PreLife as the Precursor of PrimLife

In the newly formed Prelife platform (prePLAT), the interaction among its prepops began accelerating at an exponential rate. The finitude mark of creation (FV-UMOC), would not allow such an undefinite ascension to contine with its existence, so let us see into what the Prelife could have been evolved.

The only way, for stopping that wild "fermenting" accelerating process of interaction between its prePLAT members, was for them to acquire some sort of a protective coat or mantle (i.e., a shiprot) preventing them of reaching and reacting to other members. And, by accident, and against all odds, some "naked" prepops, in their random wild uncontrolled interactions with each other, were able to create for themselves such a mantle or coat vested in the form of some sort of a protective membrane.

Those "vested" or "clothed" prepops, that were able to acquire such a cover, have now been separated from the rest, transcended and popped up from their Prelife platform (prePLAT) into a new Prolife platform (proPLAT). The new members of the proPLAT have acquired now a new name being called biological cells (biocells) or simply biological pop-ups (biopops).

LUCA  The Last Universal Common Ancestor

Now, those biological pop-ups (biopops), generating the Prolife platform (proPLAT), were carriers of the primeval life (primLife). Because they were residing in the same oceanic habitat, they were prone again to collisions and intermittently to violent collisions (viocols).
Out of such an viocol, by random chance, a miraculous unique primLife, was able to emerge to poduce subsequently single cell organisms with different structures that evolved to encompass all known embryonal Life (embrylife) on Earth. And such, because of that ultimate seed of Earth's life existence, that unique embrylife was named LUCA being the acronym of Last Universal Common Ancestor.

A fundamental characteristic of embrylife organisms has been their ability to reproduce as outlined below. We already have recognized that the Collision is the ultimate agent of creation. From a Collision, two and only two, outcomes could result: either a break-up or an infussion. Thus, from those two outcomes, two and only two reproductive mechanisms could result: a breaking apart reproduction --that is the asexual reproduction and an infusion reproduction --that is the sexual reproduction. We mark that result into the Grand Unification Theorem of Reproduction (GUTOR).

LUCA does not represent the origin of Life per se, as that distinction belongs to the primlife that appeared long time before the birth of LUCA. As such, LUCA is the "last," but not the "first," harborer of Life on Earth.

With the emergence of proPLAT, the remaining question is with respect to the status and the evolution of the depleting prePLAT.
Well, with the remaining "naked" prepops of the prePLAT continuing to migrate into the Prolife platform (proPLAT), the question for us in figuring out HOW the End would look like for the depleting prePLAT.
Well, the migration of the "naked" prepops to the proPLAT will stop when no longer an opportunity would exist for them to be engaged in any form of chemical interactions. And such an occurrence could have happen only if the prePLAT has been reduced to having only one single solitaire member!
With that recognition, we call that solitary last prepop of the prePLAT, the solapun that happens to be the precursor of the virus.

 

On The Emerging Life (Emerlife)

At the inception of Earth's formation, the Oxygen (O), that was one of the four primchem elements, did not stay idle for too long as seen below:

The free Oxygen (O) was being hunted not only by the most abundant element in Nature --the Hydrogen (H), but also by the most able element to bind with other elements --the Carbon (C). As such, in finding the Oxygen (O), the Carbon bond resulted in the formation of the non-toxic, acidic colorless gas, the Carbon Dioxide molecule (CO2). In addition, Carbon (C) by combining with Nitrogen (N) created a myriad of organic compounds implanting, as such, the primeval seeds for the evolving Prolife. Those three primeval gas molecules, the dominant Carbon Dioxide, the Nitrogen (N), and the Water molecules were the principal ingredients of primeval atmosphere (primat). Stunningly, the primeval breathing mechanism that had emerged in Prolife, was not through Oxygen, but through the abundant stable Carbon Dioxide. How, that breathing mechanism evolved and dramatically changed, in ousting the Carbon Dioxide and replacing it with the Oxygen (O), is the captivating subject below..

Some of the primeval aquatic biocells, by the wind, were been blowing out of the water along the shores and, were able to breathe through a Carbon Dioxide mechanism. However, through random rapid mutations, some subsequent biocells emerged with the ability to use Carbon Dioxide as their nutrition, converting Sun's light energy into a chemical energy. With the available water molecules (H₂O), a stunning chemical production of Oxygen (O₂) molecules was taking place with the consumption of the Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) as follows:
That stunning transformative synthesizing reaction, called photosynthesis, stands at the backbone of all emerging life on Earth. All forms of subsequent algae and plants that have followed, have emulated that photosynthesis as their life backbone.

The continuous consumption of the Carbon Dioxide with the simultaneous increase of Oxygen (through the arrival of the terrestrial biocells, transformed the composition of primat in a most profound way. That transformed primat created the necessary, but not the sufficient condition, for Prelife to transform into the expansion of Life outside the aquatic environment.

For a successful life transition from the aquatic to the terrestrial environment, a terrestrial shield protector (shiprot), called TerraShield (terrashield), had to exist. The existence of such a terrashield was able to be formed due to the increased presence of the Oxygen molecules (O₂) supplied by the newly created photosynthesis phenomenon that was transmitted in primat, as follows:

Some of the Oxygen molecules (O2) that were able to remain "free," were split into its two Oxygen atoms (O) by the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays. Those two "free" Oxygen atoms (O) by combining each with an available Oxygen molecule (O2) will form collectively two Ozone (O3) molecules. The created Ozone (O3) gas layer is indeed the terrashield. We write all this formation below.

O2+UV=O+O O+O2=O3 O+O2=O3

 

On the Expansion of the Terrestrial Emerging Life (Emerlife)

Once the plant-like aquatic emerging life (emerlife) was able to take hold, opportunities existed for their expansion into the land. By the winds, some primeval freshwater green algae, could have been thrown out of the water to the nearby land.

As noted, prior of acquiring the Ozone terrashield, Life on Earth was unsustainable because of the continuous bombardment of the cosmic ray radiation. As such, in those hostile environmental conditions, no terrestrial Life could have emerged.

However, with the Ozone terrashield created around the Earth, a dramatically different picture was now able to emerge with multiple simultaneously tracks (SimTRACKs) encapsulating the formation of terran Life --the TerraLife (terralife), as follows:

1. Random mutations from aquatic emerlife green algae evolved in time into aquatic algae-like plants. From there, in that aquatic environment, the first flowering plants have surfaced above the water --the beautiful Lily plants. 2. Also from aquatic green algae, some sort of primitive larvae with gills like for breathing were able to be formed, called gillons. 3. From winds, some of the Lily plants and some of gillons will end up on land and be able to take hold in there. As such, some of the aquatic Lily plants will eventually evolve into terrestrial flowering plants. Some of the landed gillons, on the other hand, would eventually end up evolving into landbound insects. The invasion of the terralife has just began! 4. Accidentally, some of the landbound insects will end-up on flowering plants where the nectar and/or pollen became very attractive as a food supply. That unexpected discovered food supply triggered a rapid evolutionary development towards flying. As such, the flying insects become a foregoing conclusion of evolution. 5. As noted, the evolution of flying insects was triggered by the bountiful food supply that the flowering plants could provide. On the other hand, the flowering plants found the flying insects as their lifeline of procreation. As such, the flowering plants have evolved to attract, as much as possible, their visiting flying insects for their own use, as a reproduction mechanism via pollinization. As such, an unique symbiotic relationship, called symbiosis or mutualism, was able to take hold and evolve between the flowering plants and the flying insects whose benefits were mutual in sustaining Life: From that symbiotic relationship, the flying insects get out nectar and/or pollen of the flowering plants while the flowering plant uses the flying insects as its own carriers, called pollinators, that unwittingly carry its pollen to other blossomy like plants, ensuring as such the plant reproduction and the continued propagation of Life. 6. To beat the "competition," some of the flowering plants evolved of getting taller than the rest. Greater hight of a flowering plant provided a dual advantage:  i) one, in better harvesting the sunlight for photosynthesis and ii) the other, in overshadowing its "competitors" in spore distribution as spores (and later, seeds) could be blown at greater distances if the plant was taller. An effective vascular system was required for a plant to achieve greater heights. To acquire the resemblance of a tree, i.e., to acquire arborescence, plants had to develop woody tissue that provided both: support and water transport. As such, evolution was pushing in that direction for the development of a "secondary" growth. The first plants to develop such a "secondary" growth with a woody constitution were the ferns.

On The Transition from Worm-Like Aquatic to Terrestrial Emerging Life  (Emerlife)

Through a random mutation, some aquatic microbes at the edges of water pockets or enclaves were able, by the wind, to disperse on land to evolve and transform into mucus worm-like organisms, the terrestrial wormons called terramons, that were able to breathe by receiving oxygen through their moist mucus skin by the diffusion process.

Darwin shortly before his death.

Terramons to be able to survive on land had to physically and chemically modify the soil in which they landed. They did that and eventually evolved into becoming the earthworms. As originally pointed by Charles Darwin in his last 1881 book "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits," the transformed worm soil added not only to the worm survivability and success on land, but also added to the increase of the soil health benefiting, in that way, the life of plant species.

For the aquatic microbes that remained in the water, they would also evolve into worm-like organisms, the aquatic wormons called aquamons.

Those wormons have evolved to have a "front" and a "back" with two symmetrical sides and, with "openings" at either "end" joined by a "gut."

The development of the bilateral symmetry evolved as a necessity of those creatures to integrate more aptly with their surrounding environment. That primeval body plan was subsequently transmitted to the entire animal domain (anidom) kingdom.

As such, we can say that the wormon paved the way to the path of animal evolution, called anivolution (anivol), for the entire anidom, from worms to humans...

 

On the Sudden Emergence of the Primeval New Species: the Primeval Popups Creation

From the general Pop-Up Principle Of Creation (PUPOC), we know that a qualitatively new state of existence (i.e., a popup) will always emerge out of the old state if its resistance to change (RETOC) can be overpowered. That overpowering mechanism is a continuous and gradal upleveling process called upvolution, that varies from a situation to another.

A new species always pops-up abruptly after a continuous upleveling process in reaching the bottleneck passage (BOPA).
We say that the emerged pop-up creation is the result of pop-evolution, called POPvolution (popvolution). As we have seen, a new species always pops out after a continuous struggle to reach BOPA. Thus, what is continuous is the upleveling struggle to reach the bottleneck passage (BOPA), but not the appearance of new species. That appearance, as we have seen is a punctuated or fragmented process of saltation.

Niles Eldreedge

That fundamental recognition that the speciation is not a continuous process, but is a fragmented one that arises abruptly as pop-up or saltation phenomenon, was first recognized only in 1972 by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould in their "punctuated equilibria" landmark theory.

Stephen Jay Gould

From that fundamental Popvolution recognition, we continue now with posting its straightforward consequnce:

The Principle of Popvolution
There are no transitional fossils (tranfoses) between a base species (baspec) and an emerging new species (newspec).
Remark: The fossils that are being referred today as transitional fossils (tranfoses) are in fact the fossils of the emerged primeval new species (newspecs) called primospecs. Those primospecs will gradually and continuously develop into evolved newspecs called evospecs.

.On the Finitude Mark of Natural Selection (Natsel)

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Charles Darwin	.	The finitude mark of of creation (FV-UMOC) reveals that no process in Nature can evolve and ascend indefinitely. As such, a finite evolutionary top (evotop) must exist for any natural process. Thus, the inevitable question that now arises is with respect to Charles Darwin's Natural Selection (natsel) evolutionary ascending process.
Does natsel, as such, has a cap?
Well, the answer to that is quite straightforward: YES, by 5th FURON the finitude of natsel is a foregoing conclusion.

But then, if that is so, by 5th FURON it follows that the emerged "survival of the fittest" (sofit) organisms must be engaged, unwittingly, into a self-destructive activity of their own habitat. WOW!
Well, but that is exactly what happens. An emerging induced and infused self-destructive (selfdes) evolutionary process is now begins to develop, as follows:

The successful selected sofit species, by overpopulating their given habitat, will start now continuously depleting the habitat's natural resources to the point of no return. A "suffocated" habitat begins now to emerge that is unable to sustain the existence of its most successful dominating habitant(s).

The inevitable mass extinctions are, as such, the direct results of selfdes processes. But before entering into those intrigued studies, we need first to take a closer look at ecological niches --the subject of the next page.