Bios & Ten Pulses of Evolution: Paired Literary–Scientific Visions — From First Life to First Humans
About this audiobook
BIOS & Ten Pulses of Evolution
Paired Literary–Scientific Visions — From First Life to First Humans
The journey continues. In this second book of Beyond and a New World, Zoe and Tod awaken within the great unfolding of life itself. No longer just observers, they become part of the story—inhabiting the forms life takes as it rises from the depths, faces crisis, and adapts to new worlds. From the first daring steps onto land to the forging of consciousness itself, they experience the wonder, the struggle, and the mystery of becoming. But where does the journey end? As myth and evolution intertwine, they move toward a revelation that will change everything.
Alongside this epic narrative stands Ten Pulses of Evolution—a revelatory journey through life's 4‑billion‑year history, not as a standard linear march of textbook timelines, but through a logarithmic framework, where each major pulse of life occurs at half the distance to the present. From the origin of life to the dawn of humanity, this model uncovers a remarkable pattern: evolution proceeds in regular pulses, each marking profound leaps in complexity, mobility, and consciousness.
Using accessible mathematics and rich evidence from biology, paleontology, and molecular research, this work shows how each node—at 4, 2, 1 billion years ago and beyond—ushers in a new grade of life. Striking intervals emerge: each leap follows a precursor phase of uncertainty, a transformative midpoint (Major Node), and a confirming aftermath (explicit period).
More than a timeline, Ten Pulses of Evolution offers a map of life's deep rhythm—a framework for understanding how life expands toward greater freedom, interiority, and connection. For those open to wonder, it is also a meditation on life's invisible drive—toward novelty, toward sentience, and perhaps, toward love.
Come trace evolution's pulses—and glimpse what may still lie ahead.
About the author
With degrees in Philosophy and Counseling Psychology, the author has long pursued interdisciplinary studies bridging science, history, and the humanities. He has published in World Futures on “The Fragility of Evolution,” reframing evolution around the protection of vulnerable periods of change. Building on this foundation, he developed the concept of logarithmic patterning in evolutionary time, explored in his scientific work Ten Pulses of Evolution & the Surprising Nature of Evolutionary Time.
His creative work complements these ideas through story. In the epic Bios, part of his larger trilogy, he follows Zoe and Tod as they journey through deep time, experiencing life’s great evolutionary thresholds firsthand. Drawing from his background in counseling, education, and global service—including cofounding a charter school that integrated arts and sciences, and participating in a Sister Parish Project in Guatemala—he brings together personal insight, scientific imagination, and mythic storytelling.
By pairing Bios with Ten Pulses of Evolution, the author invites readers to explore evolution both as science and as lived experience—uniting rigorous inquiry with wonder, narrative, and a sense of meaning that transcends disciplines.
