Cultural Niche Construction: An Introduction

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