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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

and carnivorous species. The carnivores eat up the herbivores which, in their turn,
eat vegetable organisms. Thus, vegetable organisms are the foundation of the eco-
logical system and exactly their properties and qualities determine the variety of an-
imal forms. Plants synthesize their biomass assimilating the luminary’s radiations us-
ing chlorophyll molecules. Therefore, it is very important which part of the radiation
that falls on the surface of the planet plants can be assimilated into the biomass. The
so-called, plant’s biological efficiency factor (“BEF” or “biological coefficient”) de-
termines the amount of vegetable biomass which is synthesized on a planet.

Therefore, the greater this biological coefficient, the more vegetable biomass is
synthesized by plants and the greater the number of animal forms able to exist in
harmony with the vegetable world. For example, the angiosperms (plants with en-
cased seeds) have a biological coefficient of 10%, while gymnospermous plants (na-
ked seeds in cones) have 7%. The increase of the biological coefficient by 3% result-
ed in the appearance of a great number of new ecological niches, for new types of an-
imal organisms, which did not remain empty for long. Exactly the appearance of the
angiosperm plants made the origin of a new class — mammals, to which modern man
belongs despite where Homo sapiens originated — possible on Midgard-earth or on
other Earth-planets. Thus, every animal species fully corresponds to the ecological
niche which it occupies. Every new species appears only as a result of the adaptation
of already existent types of living organisms to the conditions of free ecological nich-
es.

In other words, every species optimally corresponds to the ecological niche
which it occupies. This means that any species is in harmony not only with its “own”
niche but also with many other species which occupy neighbouring ecological niches.
In a healthy ecological system all species are already ideally “adjusted” to each other
and in fact cannot exist without each other. They all create a balanced food chain
without which any species would very quickly die out. Every ecological niche lays
some specific requirements on the species which tries to develop it, such as having or
developing one or another property and quality, optimum size and form, certain pro-
portion of extremities, their type and form, the colour of hair or skin, the presence of
claws, teeth, fangs, horns, etc.

In other words, only a species which fully or maximally corresponds to the
requirements of a certain ecological niche can occupy it. Therefore, the appearance
of an ecological niche which creates certain conditions for the origin of mind in a
species, which occupies it, is possible only at a certain level of development of the
whole ecological system. Reasoning life can appear, and does appear, only when the
ecological system achieves this level of development, no sooner and no later. If we
theoretically bring man into the Era of Dinosaurs, to the ecological system where gi-
ants reigned, Homo sapiens, Neanderthal man or some other humanoid species would
not be able to adapt to this world or even survive in it. Simply, there was not such an
ecological niche in those times which a humanoid species could “cram” into.

Besides, the “armament” of any humanoid species, teeth and nails (claws), even
reinforced by stones and bludgeons, and even by spears and arrows with ferrous tips,
cannot be compared to the teeth, claws, horns and chitinous armour which most spe-

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