Materii︠a︡ v sisteme organicheskogo mirovozzrenii︠a︡.--Sovremennyĭ vitalizm. Dokazatelʹstva nesostoi︠a︡telʹnosti biomekhanizma. Svoĭstva i sposoby deĭstvii︠a︡ faktora zhizni.

Uslovii︠a︡ absoli︠u︡tnogo dobra -- Kharakter russkogo naroda.

Dostoevskiĭ i ego khristianskoe miroponimanie -- T︠S︡ennostʹ i bytie -- Bog i mirovoe zlo.

Niche construction is the process whereby organisms, through their activities and choices, modify their own and each other’s niches. By transforming natural-selection pressures, niche construction generates feedback in evolution at various different levels. Niche-constructing species play important ecological roles by creating habitats and resources used by other species and thereby affecting the flow of energy and matter through ecosystems—a process often referred to as “ecosystem engineering.” An important emphasis of niche construction theory (NCT) is that acquired characters play an evolutionary (...) role through transforming selective environments. This is particularly relevant to human evolution, where our species has engaged in extensive environmental modification through cultural practices. Humans can construct developmental environments that feed back to affect how individuals learn and develop and the diseases to which they are exposed. Here we provide an introduction to NCT and illustrate some of its more important implications for the human sciences. (shrink)