Definition of Niche Construction

What is Niche Construction?

Niche construction means there is an ongoing dance of co-shaping/making and co-evolving. We make things and in turn they make us. This is happening at multiple scales and ways.

We create our environment and not simply adapt to the given. This is called: Niche construction.

To be alive is to be shaped by the world but also to shape the world to such a degree that all life is fused with a dynamic local environment - this is niche construction.

When we create our environment and not simply adapt to the given. This is called: Niche construction.

Example of Niche Construction

Niche construction is where a creature shapes its environment and the environment then turns around and fundamentally shapes the creature.

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