Поиск
Search
Важное примечание по списку литературы:
Поиск также индексирует списки литературы внутри статей. Если вы видите статью в результатах, но искомое слово не подсвечено в кратком описании — значит, оно находится внутри полного текста статьи или в списке цитируемых источников.
Important note on References:
The search also indexes the lists of references (bibliography) within the articles. If you see an article in the results but the search term is not highlighted in the summary, it means the term is located within the full text or the list of cited sources.
ACCELERATION OF BOTH BIOTIC AND TECTONIC EVOLUTIONS: DOES BIOTA MODULATE TECTONICS?
The old hypothesis by Academician V.I. Vernadsky of the biosphere being a geological force to build the surface and immediate interior of our planet is indirectly supported based on statistical data. According to occurrence data on findings of all known animal specimens and according to some characteristics of the tectonic activity of the Earth, the presence of several previously unknown cycles shortening from cycle to cycle (approx. By a factor of 1.51) over about a billion years, is substantiated. This leads to an idea of a cause-and-effect relationship between these two different categories of cycles. The influence of tectonics on biota, to one degree or another, has long been known. However, due to the mentioned cycles being rather accelerated, it is difficult to imagine that such strong acceleration in the tectonic cycles could arise due to some intra-tectonic causes, whereas the accelerated nature of biotic evolution due to some intrabiotic causes is quite possible. So, a conclusion arises of the mentioned contracting tectonic cycles being modulated by biota. Possible mechanisms of such influence are hypothesized, their clarification requiring additional research. This conclusion is revolutionary for geology and reveals biotic evolution’s previously unknown role as an active creator of global tectonic (cyclic) processes at a new, quantitative level, which is also revolutionary for evolutionary biology. But, regardless of these conclusions, the mentioned decreasing cyclicity is of interest itself, for the first time (statistically) speaking about the accelerated nature of evolution over such vast time periods.