Coevolutionary Dynamism of Man-Environment-Organism

*Imre Lázár*

## **Abstract**

In our co-evolutionary concept, we reconsider the human-environment unity framed in the M-E-O (Man-Environment-Organism) model, adapting Latour's ANT theory, where the subject of human evolution is seen in unity with its (his/her/their) "Umwelt," creating particular social, memetic, and technospherial environmental extensions and hybrids exposed to mutual selective forces. We analyze this issue in the context of coevolutionary mechanisms influencing genetic and memetic selection. Linguistic samples, the sociocultural aspects of reproduction, or sociocultural answers to the challenge of pandemics, prove the coevolutionary significance of the human ecological approach. The competitive M-E-O complexes are actors and subjects of the selective dynamism of human evolution. The M-E-O model offers a hermeneutic framework to understand the selective evolutionary dynamism of today's techno-civilizational changes, as an accelerated evolutionary process.

**Keywords:** coevolution, M-E-O model, actor-network theory, neo-evolutionist anthropology, linguistic coevolution, attachment theory, COVID-19 pandemic
