lima-de-faria holds that there are no random events in evolution, there is no natural selection and all living and non-living matter evolve from the same laws. lima-de-faria lists 56 principles of "autoevolutionism". he also gives 75 differences between autoevolution and neo-darwinism. lima-de-faria wrote that "in the framework of autoevolutionism, orthogenesis appears as the direct result of the canalization inherent to the evolutions that preceded biological evolution, and as a result of the autonomous evolutions that occur within the cell and the organism."