Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - Are We the Culmination of Nature or Has Nature Reached Her Apex in Us? AU - Beneš J Y1 - 1986 VL - 24 IS - 2-3 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 115 EP - 117 KW - Dynamical equilibrium KW - Biosphere KW - Ecological and social succession KW - Human society KW - Limited anthropocentrism N2 - N2 - The author considers the position of man in the biosphere in the course of his biological and social evolution. He stresses the double role of man in the biosphere — transforming and checking or analysing the cause of breach between man and nature. The elimination of this breach is an urgent task because its continuation and deepening lead not only to environmental crises, but also to the destabilization of the human society. Besides, its absolutization is extremely dangerous for the fate of life on the earth as well as for the fate of making in this form and in this state are inseparable from each other. Nobody will change it without the risk of destroying everything living and this also himself ER -