I believe it will also turn out to be the secret of the evolution of the genes controlling the living structure of the Earth.

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• If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.766
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
• The evolving system of genetic material itself causes evolution to follow certain pathways not only because of selective pressure from outside but by virtue of its own internal dynamical ordering tendencies.hypothesis0.763
  Alexander's endorsement of a hypothesis that supplements Darwinian theory with internal geometric ordering
• Major evolutionary transitions—from prokaryotes to eukaryotes to multicellular life—are structure-preserving transformations at the scale of life-organization itself.claim0.762
• The key to the idea that will allow a system of workable morphogenetic sequences to evolve in a not-too great length of time, is highlighted in the genetic ideas of John Holland.quote0.761
  Explicitly credits Holland's work as the inspiration for the snippable genes approach.
• The genome contains a latent wholeness — capable of generating the wholeness of the organism — which itself evolves through structure-preserving transformations analogous to direct wholeness unfolding.claim0.760
  Alexander's extension of unfolding wholeness to evolutionary processes where the evolving entity is the genetic structure rather than the organism's form directly
• Genetic information must encode not only physical forms but also complex self-modifying control mechanisms for behavior and development.claim0.760
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.757
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• The evolutionary process contains an intelligence ratchet: as competency increases, selection struggles to see the structural genome, further driving selection for competency mechanisms.claim0.756
  Explains why planaria with messy genomes have robust morphologies.