BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
( phylogeny )
delineation of the project's growth
from interconnected evolutionary contexts
weaved by non-linear threads of a self-created metahistory
heralding the onset of planetary posthistory
“Nature does not create like an engineer, but, instead, like a playful artist”. 1
All species represent stages in the developmental process of an ultimately unified genealogy of living organisms. To be part of nature is to be an element in and the result of that evolutionary process. So that the phylogeny of forms is simultaneously the phylogeny of spirit.
GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALES - CHRONOLOGY OF LIFE ON EARTH
From the Precambrian Jellyfish, Nautilus, and Octopus (600 to 300 million years ago) — the morphotypal threads of the Mandãla organism — to the reptilian Snake (100 mya) and mammalian Cat (25 mya) — its totemic threads — to the modern Human as creator of the overall sanctuary (200 000 years ago) — its visionary thread.
SOURCES
1 Bernd Lotsch, Ernst Haeckel: Art forms in Nature
MULTIMEDIA SOURCES
geological time scale table:
adapted from Thomas Wiewandt + Maureen Wilks, The Southwest Inside Out: An Illustrated Guide to the Land and Its History
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