Complex sentence: In the second cited work, Conta proposes a materialist metaphysics, affirming the wave-like character of the universe; according to this conception, the evolution of the universe as a whole, and of each entity in this universe has a wave-like character.
Split into simpler sentences: In the second cited work, Conta proposes a materialist metaphysics, affirming the "wave-like" character of the universe. The evolution of the universe, and of each item in this universe, has a wave-like character.