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The objective function of human adaptation: Developing the ideas of Vsevolod I. Medvedev

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The article is aimed at further developing V.I. Medvedev’s ideas about the specific character of human adaptation processes described in his monograph Adaptatsiya cheloveka (Human Adaptation) (St. Petersburg: Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2003). The key point is the statement that “human adaptation is a process ensuring the attainment of a particular objective.” The article elucidates and develops this statement on the basis of a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of adaptation (including biological, psychological, and social adaptation) and the results of a number of empirical researches.

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Original Russian Text © G.M. Zarakovsky, 2014, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 6–14.

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Zarakovsky, G.M. The objective function of human adaptation: Developing the ideas of Vsevolod I. Medvedev. Hum Physiol 40, 589–596 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119714060139

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