Got 'em?
Now, put them all together with commas between and little brackety things on the end.
We call this a vector.
Nice little objects. Think of it as a toolbox where you can carry around the numbers all in one neat little package.
Just because a vector doesn't have a linear order, doesn't mean it isn't quantitative.
We've had vectors for a couple-a-hundred years. We do neat stuff with them, even when the coordinates can't be compared, like the vectors in physics.
Yes, I know what a vector is. I write software with mathematical vectors at work every day.
But to go down to a level to describe either evolution or continental drift using pure math requires quantifying down to the atomic level.
When you aquire enough data to make that work in any field of science outside of math, let me know.
Math is a great tool. But it's just one tool out of many.