Defining life and evolution: Essay on the origin, expansion, and evolution of living matter

Abstract

This essay aims to define the origin, expansion, and evolution of living matter. The first formations, identified as remains, fossils, traces etc. of life are almost as old as the Earth itself. During four billion years, life on the Earth has continuously existed and been implemented in the range of conditions, ensuring the liquid state of water. During the entire period of life existence, its evolution was proceeding with the tendency of multidirectionality, after each catastrophe tending to the diversity and vastness of distribution, and all the currently living species, regardless of their complexity, have the same evolutionary age. The property of reproductive surplus (multiplication) is inherent in all the living matter. The reproduction of all the living matter is implemented via the “development” – a process of continuous occurrence of something new that did not exist in the previous moment in the reproduced individual at each specific moment of time with the tendency towards the reproduction of a “copy”. In its fundamental basis, Life is based on a programme, its material support is implemented and exists not in the field of causative-consecutive events, but in the field of programmed-causative-consecutive events. This predetermines the “biology laws”, the behaviour of the material constituent of Life at each time period, and the future of the material constituent of life.