Evolution and Ecosystem

Armstrong's giant leap is more than one step.  It is the culmination of many steps, by many steppers, and may itself be just another step in a longer development.  So, whether Evolution consists in continuity, or in discontinuity, as is sometimes debated, if Armstrong's achievement is any indication, Evolution is a process than can span thousands of years, involving perhaps an entire species.  Furthermore, insofar as the Evolution of a species is an episode in a more comprehensive history of its planet, and the species is part of a terrestrial Ecosystem, the leap is that of the entire Ecosystem, of which the Human species is a representative, just as Armstrong is a representative of the Human species.  So, the concept of Evolution as the origin of a Species may be no more than a part of a concept of Evolution as either the origin of an Ecosystem, or at least as the extension of an Ecosystem..