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PREGNANT LIFE AND REPROEVOLUTION or VER

 

García-Casas, Miguel

IES “La Morería”, Mislata (Valencia), Spain

mgcasas5@yahoo.es

 

Notes on the author

 

García-Casas, Miguel was born in Valencia (Spain) in 1955. He is PhD in Biology, Master in Environmental Management and a teacher of Biology and Geology. He has published different books and papers on Biology, Philosophy, Pedagogy and Linguistics and has also designed, developed and published computer educational games in national and international editions.

 

 

Abstract

 

Vida Embarazada and Reproevolución (VER), Pregnant Life and Reproevolution, is a holistic theory about life on the Earth and the biological evolution based on General Systems Theory (GST). Reinterpreting known data,  VER searches in the environment reproductive properties observed in women and discovers a nature globally gifted with reproduction. According to VER, the macro-organism that inhabits the Earth is reproducing to survive the planet’s fate. As evolution is part of a reproductive process, we suggest the term reproevolution.

 

VER is of inverse logic to panspermia at the same time it is an extension of Gaia. The macro-organism that lives in the Earth develops a strategy to generate a technological species able to build devices to defeat the gravity force and travel the outer space to planets where the macro-organism is rebuilt thanks to the procariotidae’s capacity of adaptation. The Earth’s live beings could form a macro-organism that is now reproducing.

 

 

 

 

VER (La vida embarazada) is a holistic theory based on General Systems Theory (GST) that offers a different vision of life on the Earth. In accordance with VER a macro-organism, that was born in our planet 3,800 millions of years ago, started its maturing and reproductive process as any live being does. Life perpetuation does not have to be limited to the liquid water disappearance or the Earth’s destruction, as it could be expected from the solar evolution. The survival of terrestrial life could be carried out by means of a strategy we have called reproevolution (reproduction + evolution) whose goal is the appearance of a technological species able to build devices to travel the outer space, defeating the gravity force that captures life and condemns it to death as it is tied to the destiny of the planet.

 

Meanwhile pluricellular life competes and collaborates with one another, a process of emergency of the technological species. Procariotidae is waiting to enter the technological devices and travel to other planets, as it has already happened (1). The procariotidae cells’ huge capacity of adaptation can allow a new microorganism to appear in another planet and so the beginning of reproevolution would be possible again (evolution for reproduction).

 

Thanks to GST (2) we can analyze processes as complex as the biological ones without reducing them to perform reductionist analyses. According to the GST, life is composed of systems, each of them formed by a whole of parts and a whole of relationships among the parts. By comparing systems we can know and foresee their functioning and make decisions. GST has been used in different fields such as ecology, social conflicts, defense and business.

 

VER suggests that living organisms of the Earth form a macro-organism that endows the two fundamental properties of life: metabolism and reproduction. Regarding the former, Lovelock (3) in his Gaia hypothesis offered data on how the macro-organism maintains homeostasis; VER contribution is the perception of the reproductive mechanism.

 

Our starting hypothesis, bearing in mind the GST, is that a woman is a system (4) whose reproductive process shows certain properties that may be observed in the environment. That environment, a complex system in which a simpler one or woman would be immersed, would be also a macro-organism endowed of reproduction and metabolism. Accordingly, the search and finding of the reproductive properties that a woman shows could help us to detect the existence of a macro-organism with reproductive capability.

 

 

Gravity adaptation

 

Live beings have adapted to gravity: Skeleton structures in vertebrates are in relation to the organism weight and the inhabited medium (air or water). Modifications on the spatial display of the woman’s spinal column are produced to compensate the embryo’s weight and its connected structures. On a planet scale, if a possible macro-organism does not respond to gravity, it means its death. Therefore, defeating gravity is a must in order to escape to other inhabited places located in the outer space.

 

In that new place the macro-organism would repeat the terrestrial cycle from procariotidae to pluricellular structures searching the technological species. This technological species may be the man’s role but the species extinguishment probability —superior to 99%— makes us wait for the man’s extinction and thus, life perpetuation depends on the transport of procariotidae to other worlds in which they could rebuild ecosystems because of their huge adaptation capacity.

 

 

Chemical substances that regulate reproduction

 

Female’s reproduction is regulated by chemical substances that women produce: Sexual hormones. In our environment there is also a chemical substance produced by live beings that regulates evolution: Oxygen. This toxic substance caused cells to become more complex to protect themselves better from it, as it is a violent bond breaker and an efficient liberator of energy. On the other hand, the predominance of taxonomic units is influenced by the oxygen concentration: 10% during the reptile prevail and 22% with mammals (5). Besides, without oxygen the required energy to develop technology would have not been released, fire would have not been produced and technological tools would have not been launched.

 

 

Sudden occurrences

 

The preceding cells of prospect multicellular beings appear during a very short period of the woman’s life. Primary ovocytes or oocytes, that could be considered the origin of cellular descents, are present in baby girls’ ovaries since the day they are born as no ovocyte of this kind will be later formed. Many of them will retrogress and disappear; others will mature following a rank bound to menstruations, and one of them will originate a new multicellular being.

 

In Nature, the Cambrian explosion happened within a very short period of time; at that time descents of triploblastic were conceived: Some of them prevailed before others, whereas many became extinct. Triploblastic organisms have made evident that they are the only ones capable of including hard and articulated parts as well as big brains in their structure; both of them essential to generate the technology that can allow a macro-organism to appear in another planet.

 

 

The organized reproduction in cycles

 

Female reproduction is cyclical and each cycle pursues the beginning of pregnancy; thus, an ovum is released to be fertilized. If fertilization and pregnancy do not ensue, the uterus sheds the lining and menstruation is produced to remove parts and rebuild the initial structure of the uterus so it offers the best conditions for a later pregnancy.

 

In Nature, different descents in different periods prevail —equivalent to the ova— perhaps to look for a technological species; therefore, to guarantee the appearance of that species massive and cyclical extinctions are produced to free habitats and facilitate the later appearance of new taxa or taxonomic units (6) that  live in those habitats.

 

 

Types of reproduction

 

There are two types of cell division in women: Mitosis and meiosis. The goal of the former is to enable the organism viability in its inner part, so cells this organism needs to function turn up.  But the latter is produced to reproduce not only a cell but a multicellular organism that will originate another of the same category, exterior and independent of it.

 

In Nature there is adaptation, similar to mitosis, a process by means of which life continues; this way new species that let life continue in this planet appear. But it would not be strange that a mechanism similar to meiosis would exist to guarantee the generation of a macro-organism independent of the Earth, to which we observe as evolution although it tends to reproduction: It would be reproevolution.

 

 

Pregnancy: a self-aggressive process

 

During pregnancy the woman’s body is subjected to alterations and undergoes many physiological changes that can produce her cramps, vomiting, bones and teeth decalcifications or even being in danger during the childbirth; risks that are faced in order to generate an individual of the same species.

 

All of us are witnesses of the self-aggressive behavior of Nature: First with the apparition of agriculture and lately with the development of technology. We are in front of an environmental stress that is causing a massive destruction. However, thanks to this there are microorganisms that have already left the Earth and have reached other planets (8).

 

 

Mathematical analysis

 

We have made a correlation between the dates of appearance of elements integrating the reproevolution and their relative order of appearance as well as between the dates of appearance of elements integrating the female reproevolution and their relative order of appearance. With these analyses we intend to verify the possible existence of an adjustment between variables that eliminate a random distribution and, subsequently, to observe whether in both cases the adjustment is produced with the same mathematical function.

 

 

 

 

1. Taxa order of appearance

 

For variable Age1 we have taken the ages of taxa appearance generally accepted; variable Order1 refers to the taxa relative order of appearance. Table 1 contains all these data.

 

Table 1.  Age of appearance – Order of appearance

Age1= Taxa appearance age        Order1= Taxa relative order of appearance

 

 

In figure 1, which shows the relationship between variables Age1 and Order1, we clearly observe a curvilinear asymptote arrangement.  Once the regression analysis has been carried out, according to the equation (9) Y=a +b*X in which X = 1/Order1 —represented in figure 2—, we find a correlation coefficient R of 0.998 and an explained variance adjusted to the degrees of freedom R2 x 100 = 99.69%; this correlation indicates a very intense relationship between the variables. The confidence level of R is 99%.

 

Fig. 1. Relationship between taxa appearance age and relative order of appearance.

 

 

Fig. 2. Adjustment display between variables according to function Y = a + b*X , being Y = Age 1 = taxa appearance age, and X = 1/Order1 in which Order1 is the relative order of appearance.

 

 

2. Reproduction and order in women

 

Table 2 shows the data used in the human reproduction analysis. In this analysis, variables Age2 and Order2 incorporate the appearance of first-order oocytes in the ovary, the production of ova in menarche, pregnancy (10) and the first childbirth. In Age2 time 0 refers to the childbirth moment whereas the previous dates refer, in %, to the time passed in the woman in labour’s life, since the beginning of the fertilization that originated her.

             

 

Table 2. Reproduction in women

Age2 = Living time before childbirth in %

Order2 = Relative order of structure appearance in woman

 

 

 

Figure 3 is equivalent to figure 1 but in women. Just as in figure 1, we observe the relationship between variables depicts a similar curve. Figure 5 is equivalent to figure 2 and represents the adjustment between Age2 and 1/Order2 for women. This adjustment is statistically significant in the relationship as R = 0.998 shows and the explained variance adjusted to degrees of freedom R2 x100 = 99.63%.  The confidence level of the relationship is 99%.

 

Fig. 3. Output of the relationship between appearance age of reproductive structures and its relative order of appearance in women.

 

 

 

Fig. 4. Output of the adjustment between variables according to function Y = a + b*X, being Y =Age2 = appearance age of reproductive structures, and X = 1/Order2 in which Order2 is the relative order of appearance in women.

 

Reproevolution and woman reproduction adjust to the same type of curve (12), what both processes are telling us seem to respond to a common model and are not due to random: Despite random is present, it is not the main motor of the whole process. The statistical analysis supports our hypothesis that evolution may be a reproductive process.

 

 

VER and holism

 

VER analyzes life globally and includes not only biological but historical and social observations. The conflicting nature of human societies based on intra-group cooperation and inter-group rivalry has developed military and astronautical high technology, both of them tightly related, and has given life the capability to reproduce at the same time it jeopardizes it.  Evolution in itself also shows cooperation phenomena such as Margulis’ endosymbiosis ((13) 1970) and rivalry with Darwin and Wallace’s natural selection.

 

Panspermia, the origin of life in our planet and evolution become connected in VER; according to this theory organisms could have reached the planet by means of Crick and Orgel’s directed panspermia (1973), they could have formed the macro-organism and could have evolved in order to reproduce and propagate in another place of the Universe. The origin of life, evolution and panspermia are included in VER.

 

VER is, on the one hand a logical theory inverse to panspermia since it refers to the turning of life to space and, on the other hand it is an enlargement of Gaia as it brings reproducing keys in the macro-organism that all living beings of the Earth seem to constitute.

 

 

Darwinism and VER

 

VER springs from the holistic paradigm whereas the synthetic theory is reductionistic. When two instruments are suitable to analyze the same phenomenon, there is no need to abandon any of them as the fact of offering two different images has not to be considered a confrontation but an enriching cooperation. VER is finalistic because it proposes life surviving by means of reproduction, as any organism does. Darwinism is not finalistic but it has made the adaptive reality unquestionable. VER suggests that, however it is, live beings as a whole possess a reproductive mechanism and a common fate. From the global perspective of VER it is logical to suggest that the evolutionary mechanism theories revise their approaches and try to contribute to clarify the reproevolution phenomenon from their paradigm.

 

 

References and Notes

 

1. This reasoning on the possible role of the procariotidae cells turn them into fundamental for the long-term life survival at the same time it brings one more reason so that natural selection have not produced its extinction

2. V.L. Bertalanffy, The theory of Open Systems in Physics and Biology Science. 3, 23 (1959). General System Theory (George Braziller, New York 1968).

3. J. Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1979).

4. According to GST, a system that is simpler than one that functions similarly it is considered homomorphic and it can be taken as an example of the more complex one.

5. P.G. Falkowski, M.E. Katz, A.J. Milligan et al., Science 309-5744, 2202 (2005).

6. Rohde and Muller (7), analyzing the most complex database on extinct species carried out by the deceased J. John Sepkoski Jr. —who suggested cycles of 26 millions of years— have reached to the conclusion that these cycles take place every 62 millions of years. These authors have not found any terrestrial or astronomical cause that adjusts to the cadence found. We are before a case that can be due to external or internal causes as Keith Thomson suggests when he refers to “an internal oscillation”. Thirty years ago Thomson suggested the 60 million-year cadence as well as the fact that every extinction was preceded by a phase of large diversification.

7.  R.A. Rohde, R.A. Muller, Nature 434, 208 and 147.

8. In 1969 several parts of the Surveyor 3 spacecraft were recovered. Inside its camera microorganisms, confirmed as Streptococcus mitis, survived launch, two and a half years of radiation exposure and no nutrient source. Some scientists suggested the possibility that these microbes were the result of a contamination once returned to Earth; a deduced but non-confirmed hypothesis. In the Mir orbital station there were identified 250 microorganisms that by means of mutations had been adapted to life in space. S. Kargel, researcher of the U.S. Geological Survey, is sorry about having allowed that hundreds of microorganisms able to survive and reproduce and belonging to tens of species have landed on Mars as non desired passengers from different missions. Some of them can have been living on this planet for thirty years.

9. We have chosen function Y=a+b*X where X = 1/Order (relative) and Y = Age (absolute) after checking that it was the one with the best fitting in the analysis made.

10. The data referred to the first delivery belong to women of run-down areas of South America. In countries such as Colombia women use to give birth in their teens, especially in segments of population socially, financially and culturally depressed (11).

11. J.R. Reina, B. Orozco, D. Dufour, G. Supr, Rev Colomb Obstet Ginecol, 51-3, http://scielo-co.bvs.br/scielo.php?pid=S0034-74342000000300010&script=sci_arttext&tlng=es (15 November 2005).

12. If charts 1 and 3 are turned left 95 degrees, it can be observed the typical curve of a system subjected to a positive feedback process in which the appearance of a stage facilitates and precipitates the appearance of the following.

13. L. Margulis, Origin of Eukaryotic Cells (Yale University Press, 1970).