Introductory remarks concerning our endeavor to show parallels between history and evolution of life—and between approaches of historiography and evolutionary biology. After brief discussion of physical and hylozoical definitions, this brings us to characterization of life as an entity always consisting of cells. Only life can distinguish some information on the background of its environment, and to assign it a meaning (according to circumstations). Life comes in two basic forms, Closure 1 (cells) and Closure 2 (supracellular teams), and of the communicative network binding them together (sybiotically) within the biosphere. What follows is basic introduction into memory, basically script and structure, their interpretation by the living, and historical changes of ways of both storage of memory, and interpretation of it by using (bio)semiotic methods. We will also touch the question whether evolutionary biology does belong to the realm of biology defined as modern science. Would not methods developped in historical sciences help deeper understanding? Are analogies drawn between historiography and evolutionary biology allowed? If so, may they be useful at all? Finally, there comes a concise outlay of the whole book, in form of three “basic” or “semiotic” statements.