Life forms or ways of living and their role in evolution.

An interdisciplinary reflection in a context of enormous complexity

Abstract

This article is born with an evolutionary perspective that covers aspects of life such as origin, diversity and co-evolution throughout all the kingdoms or domains that taxonomically group the living beings of the planet.

It has been approached through a new way of dealing with humanistic and social studies: a multi- and interdisciplinary perspective and an approach to experimental studies. The aim is to carry out research in order to have an appropriate methodology, to analyse the results in the most integrated and cooperative way possible, to explore new questions that arise from the research itself, to have a body of knowledge that allows us to confirm and advance conclusions and even to formulate new hypotheses.

The books by Lane and McGowan that are glossed, with the aim of creating intellectual heritage, have been decisive. Contrasting ideas and concepts tested in previous works, such as the importance of education, of knowledge, of a more integrated and current vision of the theory of evolution, of the sociability environment, of intellectual evolutionary convergence and interethics, and the concept of anthropic paradoxes, have been the basis for reaching conclusions such as that the introduction of physical limits (bioenergetics) allows to explain the arrest of evolution, the idea that each group of living beings has its own world in which they have experienced evolution, that symbiosis was essential for eukaryotic cells and that their metabolism and relationship to size and reproductive strategies have contributed to the evolution of animals.