There are the core insights of biohermeneutics:

1.  Part of your being is at one with every kind of living thing which has ever existed.  Your being consists of a range of physical, mental and social levels.  For instance, one level is simply having a body; another is memory; another is communication with others.  Each one of these levels derives from a particular stage in evolutionary history.  A particular life-form -- be it insect, fish, mammal, etc. -- invented and embodied each of the levels of being.  Each life-form expressed its level of being by means of a group of physical attributes and/or mental faculties.  You have inherited both the experiential aspects of the life-levels and also the physical structures that go along with each level.   Understanding yourself and your functioning in the world involves apprehending the specific parameters of each life-level, and the relation between the levels.  The ways of being of earlier life-forms are touchstones for the operation of the particular life-levels.  In short, whenever you do anything -- whenever you effectuate a life-level -- you are doing it in the same way that level's originating life-form did. 

2.  A secret matrix governs existence.  Whenever you encounter something in the world -- person, place or object -- you may wish to discover what it is.  Ordinarily you try to define it by examining what its properties are, what it says about itself, what its boundaries are.  The truth is that things in the world are not defined by reference to themselves but in relation to each other.  Everything in the world belongs to one category or another.  Determining what a thing is involves identifying its category, and then ascertaining its particular quality vis-à-vis the qualities of the other members of the category.  Each member of the category occupies a certain niche in relation to the other members.  The structure of niches within a category – the ways in which category members differ from each other – is the same across all categories.  These kinds of difference define a group of fundamental flavors or modalities of being.  The matrix of these modalities maps the entirety of phenomena in the universe. 

3.  Evolution is the key to the major mysteries of life.  Believe it or not, the great philosophical conundrums  -- life itself, the physical world, religion, sex, morality, technology, art, politics, emotion, language – are not especially mysterious in terms of their internal dynamics.  What is puzzling is the relation between them.  That relation is evolutionary.  In short, the real question is not, “What are these things?” but “How did we get from one to the other?”  Traditional evolutionary theory can supply no answer, because of a certain entrenched conception of science as blandly uniform across time.  The great secret is that the mechanisms of macroevolution – that is, the changes defining the major chapters in the book of life, not the minor headings – are highly various.  The great transitions of life are wildly unpredictable and colorful, remarkable and ingenious, tumultuous and traumatic, historically contingent and completely unrepeatable.  Life expanded, unified, bifurcated. turned into its opposite, rotated, revolved upon itself, turned inside out, modulated,   It is these great kinds of change which define the major issues – and conflicts – of our time.