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Evolution theory goes beyond

OPINION - As a Wallacean and Darwinian, I have always viewed life from the perspective of evolutionism. I see the world of plants and animals always using evolutionary theories. How a species develops functional organs, forms morphology, adapts to ecosystems and so on as a natural laws.

This perspective ultimately forms my framework for thinking about various things, including the way I see myself, everyday problems and the way I think about big things such as economics, geopolitics, war and so on using an evolutionary perspective.

Evolution theory goes beyond


Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck are three great figures who really inspired me. They are well known as pioneers of evolutionary theories. They start from small things in the sub-subject of biology, although they also discuss geology and so on.

Wallace focused on species adaptation and Darwin on sexual selection. Both developed evolutionary thinking using observational methods. Lamarck focused on structural morphology using literature analysis methods. On the other hand, August Weismann investigated evolutionary phenomena using experimental methods.

They created the foundations for the emergence of the theory of evolution to explain morphological phenomena, speciation of living things, extinction of species and so on in the biological and environmental domains that we generally know about today. There are now also many investigations at the cellular biology level using evolutionary approaches.

I think that domain is very small, because I see that evolutionary ways of thinking can be used to analyze broader scientific phenomena as I stated at the beginning of this article. The theory of evolution can explain that you will succeed or fail in living your life, and even predict whether someone will live rich or poor.

I will show you that the thoughts of figures with these understandings can explain the financial fate of each individual in everyday life.

We know that the main points of Darwin's thinking are selection and competition, this can explain that you will be rich if you are competitive, whereas you will be poor if you are not competitive. Wallace focuses on adaptation, this means that someone will be rich if their life is adaptive in the ecosystem and conversely will be poor if they are not adaptive. Lamarckism states that the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer.

The theory of evolution extends to other subjects outside the domain of morphology. The thoughts of Wallace, Darwin and Lamarck can explain phenomena broader than just the biological domain. Evolutionary theory can be a basic framework for analyzing psychological, anthropological, social, economic, political, war cases and so on.

By Aryo Bandoro
Founder of Dlium.com. You can follow him on X: @Abandoro.

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