Information and Behavioral Diversity

Modern science has accumulated an enormous amount of data indicating the decisive influence of information on humans and their activities and behavioral manifestations. A systemic study of the issue reveals that the information-behavior complex is not only a construct based on the principle of interdependence of its components but also a factor capable of setting the course and direction of sociobiological and historical progress. A classic postulate of sociology defines the role of civilizational achievements that shape what happens within human boundaries, while those boundaries themselves are set by biology. If we talk about the possible evolutionary and sociobiological consequences of information-driven behavioral differentiation, then today, we should say that information and the behavior formed on its basis are capable of pushing these boundaries. Information creates behavioral diversity, which, in turn, through newly emerging behavioral forms, can also be seen as a contributing factor to a new sociobiological reality that is the product of the diversity of human qualities. From the point of view of general ethology, which studies the biological prerequisites for any forms of behavior, behavioral patterns are no less reliable signs of entities similar in terms of group kinship than morphological differences, bodily traits, or intellectual indicators. The question of whether behavioral diversity and the resulting progressive differences in the characteristics of individual human groups can lead to the future anthropological deformation of the basic type of Homo sapiens is still open.