Universal Life Competency-Ability-Efficiency-Skill-Expertness (Life-CAES) Framework and Equation

Living systems demonstrate substantial variability in growth, reproduction, productivity, resilience, and survival, even when exposed to broadly similar environmental resource inputs. Classical biological models attribute such variability to domain-specific mechanisms—such as metabolic rate, nutrient uptake efficiency, genetic potential, and hormonal regulation—but no existing framework quantitatively integrates these mechanisms into a unified cross-kingdom performance model. This study introduces the Universal Life Competency–Ability–Efficiency–Skill–Expertness (Life-CAES) framework as a systems-biology formulation that explains biological performance as the coupled outcome of resource acquisition and…