Evolution Without Biology

Evolution Without Biology formalizes evolution as a universal operator, not a biological process. The paper shows that evolution is the minimal mechanism by which any coherent system reorganizes under constraint across time. By stripping evolution down to its structural core—constraint, perturbation, and reorganization—the paper demonstrates that this operator governs coherence in physical, biological, cognitive, civilizational, and planetary systems. Across all scales, systems follow the same sequence: accumulated mismatch, collapse, hinge, and re‑coherence. This pattern is not metaphorical but structural. It is the architecture through which reality maintains stability in a changing world. The paper reframes biology as one dense expression of a deeper operator, not the origin of evolutionary dynamics. It positions development, identity formation, cultural change, institutional transformation, and planetary reorganization as manifestations of the same underlying mechanism. Within the framework of Relational Structuralism, evolution becomes the operator that reorganizes relational configurations to maintain coherence. The paper argues that coherence is not a static property but an ongoing achievement produced by iterative reorganization. Evolution Without Biology establishes evolution as the architecture of coherence across all scales, unifying your corpus and providing the structural foundation for Relational Structuralism.