Evolutionary ecology

A review of results to date

Živko, M, Mikić

Glasnik Antropološkog društva Jugoslavije

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0351-1480

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1999-2021/11/03/12:21:42

In comparison with the available, exclusively foreign, literature (see the contribution section) the author has only interpreted individual results achieved in the field of evolutionary ecology, for a specific circle of experts who have studied man's past from other aspects, with no pretensions that these results have also been debated. Thus, in this contribution it can be seen, amongst other things, that on the level of the early hominoid (australopiteka and homo habilisa) the natural environment exerted a well defined, very strong, selective pressure on the straightening and enlargement of the body and the expansion of the brain mass. On the level of Homo erectus, dependence on the environment gradually decreased, best shown in the colonization of the African and Eurasian regions. Archaic sapiens (Homo sapiens neadertalensis), and especially Homo sapiens sapiens became inereasingly less dependant on the natural environment, so that in their youngest phases they even succeeded in influencing their natural environment. However, this does not mean that modern man is no longer an ecosensitive being.