The impact of geodynamic processes on the emergence and evolution of the man

Abstract

A systematic approach to the study of the geodynamic impact on human communities allows us to avoid the geodynamic determinism. Almost all discussed phenomena and structures related to geodynamics are open dissipative systems (Nesterov in Systems, systems thinking and geology. Geology at school and university. Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, pp. 24–28, 2001), and energy with matter exchange across their boundaries. It is essential for us that the paleoclimatic rhythm established for this time served as the background of the evolution of hominids, the emergence of humans and the history of the development of human cultures. The human society, its life support and development form complex systems, in which not only social, political, economic and technological but also natural processes that are represented by climate changes and geodynamic events. The impact of the systems of these natural processes of varying complexity influenced decisively on the formation of humans as a species, on establishing production economics, on the development of civilisation processes in the Alpine tectonogenesis from Greece and the Black Sea to India and Central Asia. The peculiarities of the mentality and thinking of the ancient Greeks was coherent with the features of the geographical environment of Hellas. For a long time, the environment in this area proved to be comparable with the man and determined the elements of his evolution.