Co-evolution in Big History: A Transdisciplinary and Biomimetic Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals
Journal Title: Social Evolution & History - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 2
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to study the co-evolutionary processes that life has developed over billions of years in the context of ‘Big History’. The main intention is to identify their operational principles and strate-gies in order to apply them to solve complex problems as the ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) proposed by the United Na-tions for the year 2030. The most important observations show us that all forms of life are develo- ping sustainable and regenerative strategies in nature since life's first appearance about 3.8 billion years ago. As a result of the discussion, those co-evolutionary operational principles of ecosystem cooperation must be bio-mimetically copied, emulated, and improved to reduce ecological footprint and to achieve the SDGs. In conclusion, biomimicry finds in Big History a perfect theoretical model to understand how humanity must co-evolve in harmony with nature.
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Javier Collado-Ruano
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