Define away. Just remember that if you wish to discuss the scientific theory of evolution from biology, you are not entitled to your own "definitions".
You have it backwards.
Life adapts to the environment. Not the other way round.
The impression I got from the topic subject, is the observation that astral physics and cosmology, does the same for the universe, as biology does for life. Both could be called evolution. The former shows how the universe began and unfolded, just as the evolution fixates on the first replicators, as astral physics uses the BB. Both show how each aspect changes with time and how both evolve in their own ways.
Evolution comes from Latin ēvolūtiō (stem ēvolūtiōn- ) “unrolling a papyrus scroll, reading through (an author's words or a book),” a derivative of the verb ēvolvere “to roll out or away, unroll (a papyrus scroll), uncover, unwrap, unfold by using the intellect.”
Since the universe evolved first; intellectual unfolded, before life and life appears within the evolving universe, biological evolution is a subset of something even larger than itself. We have only found life on earth, so what is it about our planet, that came together, before life, that made life possible, since life is not very common based on hard evidence?
Nonsense.
In fact, ironically, evolution theory has been called the "unified field theory" of the biological sciences, because it ties everything together in biology, micro-biology, genetics, molecular biology, anatomy, bio-chemistry, paleontology, etc... Each of which are pretty independent fields.
And it goes even further then that.... Take the discovery of Tiktaalik for example. Found by prediction as a result of collaboration with geologists.
Paleontologists had a timeframe in mind (some 350 million years ago) and a specific type of environment (swampy shallow waters) for a transitional species reflecting the transition of fish-like sea animals to 4-legged land crawlers. In collaboration with anatomy experts they had anatomical features in mind also.
Geologists supplied them with potential places where they could find exposed rock of that age which at that time consisted of the correct environment.
It only took a few weeks of digging to find exactly what they expected to find: a 350 million year old "fish-apod" with the exact transitional features they expected.
That's explanatory power for ya. Multiple independent fields, multiple independent lines of research / knowledge / inquiry, all converging on the same answers.
The idea that each of these fields of expertise only live on their own little island is either extremely ignorant or just a plain lie.
These many fields are important, but there is much more to science than just these bio-related niches. These do integrate a larger portion of the forest, but the full forest of science knowledge, needs to include physics; see above, and even consciousness. Much of evolution will not work without consciousness, but it is not included in your list, as being prominent enough. Your list is more DNA hardware but lacks software.
Evolution also lacks Abiogenesis, which more connected to the physical chemical side of the life's appearance, closer to physical chemistry. A water variable for evolution is far more universal and integrating over the widest range of science, including all of biological evolution.
Water is the second most abundant molecule in the universe, behind only H2. Helium is an atom and does not form stable molecules to be part of an abundant molecule. Water is the most abundant solid; ice, in the universe. H2 does not freeze until -434F, while water freezes at +32F. Hydrogen or H2, once you warm solid hydrogen up, at all, it melts and boils and flies apart. Water can stay solid and liquid much long under pressure, to allow solid materials to gather and compress for a star's core.
Solid water or ice is critical to star formation. Gravity can attract solids much easier than gases with water; ice very abundant. Gases work better after the star have gown. Water is also unique in that water contracts when it melts; expand when it freezes. This somewhat unique anomaly of water is important to jump starting the fusion core of a forming star. The 10% volume contraction, going from ice to liquid water, as gravity does work and creates center of gravity heat, creates what I like to call fusion hammer. Fusion hammer is cascading collapse of the starter ice into liquid, creating a cascade collapse into core, that can fire up the deuterium/water cylinder; fusion. The abundance of water in the universe also implies water then begets even more water, from the star collecting H2 to add to the fusion to oxygen.
New studies now show that stars and galaxies formed much earlier in the universe, than was originally assumed; 100's of millions of years. This new data could explain how the first stars could have formed easier with just hydrogen gas. The universe was much denser that early and gravity was stringer and could gather even hot hydrogen gas into stars. As the universe expanded, cooled and water began to form, freeze and collect the next generation of stars could form easier, with less gravity via water/ice.
The two most common reactive elements in the universe are Hydrogen and Oxygen, which is the foundation of all Chemistry; acids and bases, reduction and oxidation. Water is the gold standard by which we compare many chemical parameters and reactions. Water is even the root of the Metric System. 1cm3 of water is 1ml in volume, and weights one gram and if one gram of water is cubed, each side is 1cm. Universal standard of measurement can be derived anywhere in the universe, we can find even a small amount of water.
If one was forced to include the evolution of the universe into biological evolution, biological is too narrow, to be a good integral approach. I like water since it is one of the main products of stars and star formation, and by touching everything in cells, water mirrors the organic diversity, via integrated binary hydrogen bonding states within the liquid water matrix.
The processing of the genetic information within DNA is facilitated by highly discriminatory and strong protein binding. It has been shown that the interfacial water molecules can serve as 'hydration fingerprints' of a given DNA sequence [
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This finger printing is one example of how water can reflect the details of specific organic surfaces. Theoretically a water simulation approach would have the binary switches of many hydrogen bonding hydrogen of many connected water molecules, set, based on the organic surface activity and geometry. We can use the fingerprint water halos; one variable, for fast simulations in one variable.
