Evolution inevitability

FIG. 2.7. Illustration of the way in which multi-cellular organisms combine their cells physically through extracellular connective tissue, often calcified, to give shape and developed cell-cell communication through elements and chemicals. Note that all this evolution was made possible by oxidation following inevitably from the release of 02... 

Inevitably, the study of evolution will take a modeling approach, and discussions such as those above, on strange bedfellows , parasitism and tissues, will point to and illuminate the types of relationships and evolutionary mechanisms that should (and must) contribute to the broader study of evolution. Of course, I am not alone among biologists in advocating such an approach, but my most important allies in the struggle to study the complexity of evolution are philosophers, particularly the biophilosophers and the philosophers of becoming who sometimes wear the same hat . 

The absorption of energy into the synthesis of reduced chemicals in cells inevitably produced an ever-more oxidised environment which is not only the source of material evolution in life but also with respect to the chemicals in cells becomes a huge energy store. 

The logic of the evolution of insertion can now be considered. Much as the most primitive selectivity of the chemistry of the uptake process, pumping, carrying and final binding to form a useful enzyme is not an invention by organisms but is a necessary consequence of inevitable equilibrium considerations (see Section 4.17), so the binding of particular metal ions to particular chelatase proteins was similarly selected... 

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