Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - Natural Selection in the Evolution of Hominids and its Relation with the Factors of the Hominization Process AU - Vančata V AU - Přívratský V Y1 - 1983 VL - 21 IS - 1 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 53 EP - 56 KW - Internal basic factor of hominization KW - Protoadaptation KW - Monotyp KW - Active component of adaptation KW - Natural selection KW - Plio-Pleistocene hominids KW - Punctuated equilibrium N2 - N2 - The relation between natural selection and the defined internal factors of the hominization process is discussed. The authors stress that the concept of the complex of factors as well as the role of natural selection in the human evolution is necessary to develop not on the basis of the clasical concept of an ecosystem but on that of a monotop. Very diverse but relatively stable environmental conditions are presumed, in time interval covering hominid evolution. In the concrete realization of qualitative changes and their fixing the natural selection plays a fundamental role by selecting an individual with a concrete type of properties. One is not able to assess the significance of this effect on the structures, which were fundamental for the action of natural selection, and were changing during development of hominid line up to contemporary man. ER -