An adaptive paradigm for human space settlement

作者：Smith Cameron M^*

来源：Acta Astronautica, 2016, 119: 207-217.

DOI：10.1016/j.actaastro.2015.11.017

• Space settlement
• Space policy
• Adaptation
• Space anthropology long-term planning
• Biocultural evolution

Because permanent space settlement will be multigenerational it will have to be viable on ecological timescales so far unfamiliar to those planning space exploration. Long-term viability will require evolutionary and adaptive planning. Adaptations in the natural world provide many lessons for such planning, but implementing these lessons will require a new, evolutionary paradigm for envisioning and carrying out Earth-independent space settlement. I describe some of these adaptive lessons and propose some cognitive shifts required to implement them in a genuinely evolutionary approach to human space settlement.

• 出版日期2016-3