Until today you night have though that mineralogy is the exact opposite of an evolutionary science. Minerals should have the same property everywhere in the universe. In this short 7-min video, Robert Hazen explains why an important branch in the science mineralogy has to be evolutionary: the appearance of particular minerals has a history. They do not exist at all places in the universe and then do not exist in all times. Why and when minerals appear is the evolutionary branch of the science of mineralogy. Watch Video. Here is a short piece that Hazen was written on mineral evolution. Hazen has also published an article with Niles Eldrege in which articulate their view of a general theory of evolution that is much broader than the one in biology. Read Themes and Variations in Complex Sytems.