Co-evolution in big history: A transdisciplinary and biomimetic approach to the sustainable development goals

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to study the co-evolutionary processes that life has developed over billions of years in the context of 'Big History'. The main intention is to identify their operational principles and strategies in order to apply them to solve complex problems as the 'Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations for the year 2030. The most important observations show us that all forms of life are developing sustainable and regenerative strategies in nature since life's first appearance about 3.8 billion years ago. As a result of the discussion, those co-evolutionary operational principles of ecosystem cooperation must be bio-mimetically copied, emulated, and improved to reduce ecological footprint and to achieve the SDGs. In conclusion, biomimicry finds in Big History a perfect theoretical model to understand how humanity must coevolve in harmony with nature.