Adaptation of the Human to Environmental Influences: Naturalistic and Sociocultural Components

A. V. Kostina

Abstract

Adaptation of the person to changes of the external environment actually defined the direction of its evolution. The person, unlike other biological organisms, since that moment when he began to become actually a person, strove for independence of the outside world. The essence of its adaptation consisted not only in establishment of unity with environment, and confrontation, constant with it, the invention of those mechanisms and tools which could promote submission of the nature. For this reason the person throughout all his history acts as a source of ecological crises – beginning from neolytic and continuing by today\\\'s global crisis of an ecosystem. In this aspect the main objective of the person his appeal to reason which one can help it to realize that that environment in which the person was created is most adequate for his functioning and today seems, so, this environment needs to be kept as a condition of survival of a human as a specie. Keywords: person, society, nature, ecosystem, ecology, adaptation, evolution, crisis, global problems.

Language: russian

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A. V. Kostina
Adaptation of the Human to Environmental Influences: Naturalistic and Sociocultural Components // Electronic periodical “Herald of the International Academy of Sciences. Russian Section”, 2020. Issue #1: 9—16