Continuidad y discontinuidad en la construcción de nicho: hacia una lectura política del proceso de domesticación

Metatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 8:125--134 (2018)
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ThevariationunderdomesticationhasbeenstudiedbyevolutionarybiologysincethebeginningoftheDarwinistresearchprogramme,highlightingartificialselectionasapartofthedevelopmentoftheconceptofnaturalselection.Recently,nicheconstructiontheoryhasbeenusedtoanalyzetheprocessofdomesticationwhichhashistoricallybeenpartofsociallifeforhumanbeings.Inthepresentworkwemakeanapproachtotheimplicationsofartificialselectionasanelementinthelineofdialecticaltensionbetweennatureandsociety.WeanalyzefromaMarxistperspectivetheelementsofcontinuityanddiscontinuitythatthereproductionofa“secondnature”introducesintheprocessofnicheconstruction.Wefocusonthepoliticdimensionofusevalue(Echeverría2001)asanemergingprocessinthere-productionofasocialandculturalidentityinhumansocieties.Inthisworkwefocusondomesticatedplants.Theexistenceofatelosorsubjacentintentionalityconfiguresdistinctivefeaturesofhumannicheconstruction(Zeder2009)andcentrallyofartificialselection.Thereproductionofasecondnatureisdirectedbyateloswhichisnotonlynornecessarilyrelatedtothemagnitudeofresourcesappropriatedbyhumanbeings,butalsotothegenerationofusevalueadaptedtoacertainformofsociallifethatisrecreatedandgivenplace:apoliticdimension.

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