Contemporary sociobiological crisis: specific trends and general mechanisms

The paper is devoted to the analysis of such problem as crisis of natural (biological) foundations of modern civilization. It turned out that in accordance with the integrated essence of man and society, he can only be understood as a holistic, socio-biological in nature. The number of disturbing trends in various aspects of biological life (somatic, psychological, genetic). As was shown they have many common features. The author believes, therefore, that the crisis has a common mechanism of action at its core. It is connected with objective differences between modes the social and of the biological existence. If the first one is based on the conscious human practice and of became more and more dynamic during the history, the biological mode of existence is more static and conservative, is associated with adaptation to the environment and the need to maintain homeostasis. Accordingly, the crisis occurs when social change is so intensive that human biology does not manage to adapt to them and gets into state of maladjustment.An important conclusion is that the crisis is not necessarily coupled with simple regression and degradation but also can appear during progress. Crisis in itself is the situation of instability , uncertainty, when the development can go further both uplink or downlink . A.P. Naza-retyan the concept of an evolutionary crisis. Namely with this type of crisis we are dealing in the modern era, when in the course of scientific and technological revolution the main spheres of society demonstrate unprecedented acceleration. Situation arises turbulent development, which is called a bifurcation point in synergetics. Finally, as has been shown, co-evolutionary movement of the social and biological gets disturbed, between them occurs desynchronization. Since modern transformation of society is associated with its transition to a post-industrial phase of the existence, the informational sphere plays in the described processes crucial role. Overall growth of stress and also consistent isolated stimulation of nervous system takes place. Because of its central regulatory role this makes negative effect on all systems of the human organism. In the end, the author concludes that further progress is impossible with overload of human biology, so that the strategy of solving crisis should be connected with finding an optimal balanced type of coevolution between social and biological dimensions.

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