Origins & Symbiotic “Doubling”
About this audiobook
Origins & Symbiotic "Doubling" is the opening volume of Couplets in Evolutionary Time, a five-part exploration of life's major evolutionary transitions through a logarithmic framework. Drawing upon recent discoveries in geology, molecular biology, paleontology, and evolutionary theory, the author proposes that life's earliest history can be understood as a paired evolutionary movement.
The first pulse established the living cell by enclosing self-organizing processes within a cellular boundary, creating organisms capable of regulating stored energy over time. The second pulse expanded life's organizational capacity through symbiotic "doubling," as previously independent cells became integrated into a new organism. Together, these two foundational innovations prepared the way for multicellularity and, ultimately, the origin of animals.
Rather than presenting life's beginnings as a sequence of isolated events, this work reveals a coherent pattern of coupled evolutionary pulses. Through a synthesis of contemporary research and logarithmic charting, Origins & Symbiotic "Doubling" offers a fresh perspective on how the earliest chapters of evolution unfolded and establishes the conceptual foundation for the volumes that follow.
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About the author
With degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, Michael Susko has long been dedicated to interdisciplinary and synthetic scholarship. His published work spans evolutionary theory, archaeology, cosmology, history, and symbolic anthropology, seeking broad patterns that connect the sciences and the humanities. He previously published in World Futures the article "The Fragility of Evolution," which re-envisioned evolution around the concept of fragility and the protection of vulnerable periods of change. His subsequent research has expanded this inquiry through the development of a logarithmic framework for evolutionary time, exploring the possibility that major transitions in the history of life unfold in a regular, accelerating pattern.
