title: Ecosystem theory of evolution and social ethics.
abstract: Ecosystem evolution is driven by general laws for open systems aiming at immortality (first genetical then also cultural) of its components. Evolutionary impulses spread downward from ecosystem disturbances to population strategies to genome structures (opposite to the upward causation of traditional theory). Environmental cycles work as winding engine pushing evolution a step further at each round. Natural selection is being slackened with time while memory elaborates to conscious level. General trend is from unsustained growth to stability, individuation, increased diversity, standing biomass to productivity to dead mass ratios. Progressive evolution is interrupted by biospheric crises, or backward developments. Human activities contribute to the latter while for sustainable existence it will be necessary to switch from the crisis to the progress scheme. Human morals are grounded in million years of pre-human and pre-historic human evolution. However to be taught by nature means to comply with its progressive rather than backward tendencies. Human history as a continuation of the animal history is a perpetual struggle against natural selections.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Nature Protection and Reserves (UNIIPriroda), Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Krassilov
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D017753:Ecosystem; D004989:Ethics; D006801:Humans; D012931:Social Environment; D013598:Systems Theory