There has been no mechanistic explanation for evolutionary change consistent with phylogeny in the 150 years since the publication of 'Origins'. As a result, progress in the field of evolutionary biology has stagnated, relying on descriptive observations and genetic associations rather testable scientific measures.

This book illuminates the need for a larger evolutionary-based platform for biology. Like physics and chemistry, biology needs a central theory in order to frame the questions that arise, the way hypotheses are tested, and how to interpret the data in the context of a continuum.The reduction of biology to its self-referential, self-organized properties provides the opportunity to recognize the continuum from the Singularity/Big Bang to Consciousness based on cell-cell communication for homeostasis.

<p>Chapter 1. Introduction</p><p>Chapter 2. Darwin, the Modern Synthesis, and a New Biology</p><p>Chapter 3. Cognition and the living condition</p><p>Chapter 4. What is consciousness? An Evolutionary Perspective </p><p>Chapter 5. Networking from the Cell to Quantum Mechanics as Consciousness</p><p>Chapter 6. The Nature of information and its communication</p><p>Chapter 7. The information cycle and biological information management</p><p>Chapter 8. Communication and the accumulation of genetic information</p><p>Chapter 9. Non-genic means of information reception and exchange</p><p>Chapter 10. The primacy of the unicellular state</p><p>Chapter 11. Phenotype, niche construction and natural cellular engineering</p><p>Chapter 12. Holobionts</p><p>Chapter 13. Four Domains: Cognition-based evolution</p><p>Chapter 14. Reconciling physics and biology</p><p>Chapter 15. What does this mean for evolution?</p><p>Chapter 16. Conclusion: Cellular-molecular evolution in the 21st century </p>