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The underlying paradigm for cosmology is theoretical physics. In this paper we explore ways this framework might be extended with insights from information and computation studies and evolutionary developmental (evo-devo) biology. We also briefly consider implications of such a framework for cosmic culture. In organic systems, adaptive evolutionary development guides the production of intelligent, ordered and complex structures. In such systems we can distinguish evolutionary processes that are stochastic, creative, and “divergent, ” and developmental processes that produce statistically predictable, robust, conservative, and “convergent ” structures and trajectories. We will briefly model our universe as an evolutionary, computational, and developmental systemas an “evo compu devo ” universe (abbreviated “evo devo ” universe hereafter). Our framework will try to reconcile the majority of unpredictable, evolutionary features of universal emergence with a special subset of potentially statistically predictable and developmental universal trends, including: accelerating advances in universal complexity (however we define such advances, e.g. Aunger 2007), seen over the last half of the universe’s life history, in contrast to deceleration during the first half increasing spatial and temporal (space-time) locality of universal complexity developmen