The evolution of evolution Evolution is a structure of organized change. But it is more.
Evolution is a structure of organized change which is itself undergoing change and reorganization.
In the prebiotic conditions of early Earth, before there was any life to evolve, the dynamics of evolution favored the survival of anything stable. Stability permitted evolution to operate longer, and so stability allowed evolution to generate further stability. The first stage of evolution was thus the evolution of a matrix of self-generating complexity, which gave evolution a population of persistent things to work on. At the next stage, evolution evolved self-replicating stabilities. Self- reproduction provided the possibility of errors and variation.