Human nature transformation in the context of ecosystem recovery

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of preserving human identity as a representative of Homo sapiens in the context of ecosystem recovery in the frame of the global environmental crisis deepening at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. It analyses different points of view in modern sciences and philosophy to the problem of human nature, as well as natural and socio-cultural factors leading to the transformation of human nature within the accelerated development of technogenic civilization. The article outlines the positive and negative trends in the socio-anthropological transformations of human nature associated with the use of the latest biotechnologies, genetic engineering tools, pharmacology, etc.