How Can Architecture Improve the Health of Honeybees?

“We shape our buildings and afterwards, our buildings shape us.”—Winston Churchill in a speech to Parliament, 1943. While Churchill may have been speaking about social dimensions of design for the House of Commons, his words foreshadow a challenge to Charles Darwin’s Standard Evolutionary Theory. Conrad Waddington and Richard Lewontin introduced a new model of biological evolution, Niche Construction Theory (NCT) in the late 1980s that suggests species do not evolve purely through natural selection. In Niche Construction Theory, organisms direct their own evolution through intentionally modifying their environment: “The organism influences its own evolution by being both the object of their own natural selection and the creator of the conditions of that selection.”

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.109.32

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