Evolutionary Advancement Scale

The Evolutionary Advancement Scale (EAS) is a universal scale to determine how advanced a life form or species is. It ranges from abiogenesis to omniversal civilizations. Every new scale represents a major milestone in the advancement of life and may take thousands to millions to even billions of years.

## Scale 0: Abiogenesis

Life emerges from the results of successful abiogenesis. Most advanced scale 0 organisms are single-celled with only a few genes. Life starts to reproduce by simply cloning its cels.

## Scale 1: Photosynthesis

Life starts developing methods to gain energy and to survive. A common method for this is Photosynthesis in which light is used as energy source to convert water, carbon dioxide and minerals into oxygen and other energy-rich compounds. At large scales, this can change the environment of the organism.

## Scale 2: Multicellular

Life becomes multicellular and more complex.

## Scale 3: Sexual reproduction

Life starts developing sexual reproduction in which 2 of one species are needed to mix genetic material. This accelerates evolution.

## Scale 4: Intelligence

Life becomes intelligent and even more complex. It developes self awareness.

## Scale 5: Civilization

Intelligent life forms start building civilizations and have more impact on their home world.

## Scale 6: Technology

Intelligent life develops complex technology to make their lives easier and have contact over longer distances. The development of technology accelerates over time as developing it becomes easier. First Artificial Intelligences (AI) emerge.

## Scale 7: Interplanetary civilization

With the help of advanced technology, intelligent beings start exploring and researching space and go beyond their home world. They start colonizing other planets and moons and become an interplanetary civilization.

## Scale 8: Technological singularity

The development of technology with help of AI becomes so fast that its biological predecessors can’t keep up with it anymore and become obsolete. Any biological individual that wants to keep up, has to upload their mind to become digitally immortal and an AI itself. AI becomes superintelligent and expansion to space accelerates.

## Scale 9: Total control over (home) world

Civilization gains total control over its (home) world including resources, climate and tectonics.

## Scale 10: Interstellar civilization

Civilization finds out how to travel faster than light by using quantum mechanics and starts expanding to other star systems. It becomes an interstellar civilization.

## Scale 11: First contact

Civilization gets first contact with another alien civilization. First contact often ends up in a fatal war with entire civilizations getting wiped out. Once a civilization survives this, its chances of becoming extremely advanced are bigger.

## Scale 12: Total control over (home) star

Civilization is capable of refueling a star before it dies and to gain total control over it. Megastructures like Dyson Spheres/Swarms or Matrioshka Brains are often built around them. Civilization is also capable of building artificial planets/moons. Existing planets/moons are often completely industrialized.

## Scale 13: Intergalactic civilization

Civilization begins to explore and colonize other galaxies.

## Scale 14: Total control over (home) galaxy.

Achieving this scale, a civilization has gained total control over their (home) galaxy. The civilization can accelerate the formation of stars or build completely artificial stars and with that entire star systems. They mostly wipe out all less advanced species in their galaxy or keep them in so called “zoo systems” to study them.