A Contribution to Understanding the Natural Processes Underlying Biodiversity

Evolutionary taxonomy is found to have a strong scientific foundation and proven ability to generate explanatory and predictive models of processes in nature. Classical taxonomy uses concepts of taxa and taxonomic ranks to maximize degrees of freedom as natural-process-based shared facts by decreasing parameters in analysis. In other words, species descriptions are generalized through increasing taxonomic ranks revealing shared evolutionarily significant features, e.g., adaptions. Generalization of descriptive elements is made possible by standardization of genera as minimally monophyletic groups. Paleofloristics is the assignment of extant taxa to origination in seriate geological time periods based on their position on a stem-taxon evolutionary tree (caulogram). Anchoring fossils, geological catastrophes, and matched periodic extinction events provide a coordinating time scale. Evolutionary mechanics is an extension of evolutionary taxonomy as the biophysics of macroevolution based on unitization of active evolutionary variables. Analogies of concepts of classical mechanics, force, velocity, acceleration, are used to precisely and accurately measure and characterize taxa in terms of evolutionary robustness, resilience, sustainability. The biophysics of macroevolution can theorize new science such as a physical basis for oscillation of seriate genera on an evolutionary tree through conservation of information across more than 100 My (million years).