Human evolution evolutionary forces

Palumbi, S.R. 2001. Evolution humans as the world s greatest evolutionary force. Science, 293, 1786-1790. 

Vernadsky first took up the term noosphere in 1931, as a new dimension of the biosphere under the evolutionary influence of humankind (Vernadsky 1944). He wrote The Noosphere is the last of many stages in the evolution of the biosphere in geological history (Vernadsky, 1945). The biosphere became a real geological force that is changing the face of the earth, and the biosphere is changing into the noosphere. In Vernadsky s interpretation (1945), the noosphere is a new evolutionary stage of the biosphere, when human reason will provide further sustainable development both of humanity and the global environment ... 

Evolution, the process by which systems under non-random selective pressure become more complex, has been a pervasive force over 4.5 billion years of Earth history. Evolutionary episodes, including the prebiotic synthesis of biomolecules, the selection and organization of those molecules into self-replicating systems, the subsequent co-evolution of the geo-and biospheres, and the modern-day acceleration of chemical evolution through human invention, serve to illustrate this recurrent theme. 

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