1926年，V.I. 韦尔兹基也把人类日益增长的影响力称为“进化发展的自然方向，对周围环境有意识影响的效果越来越明显。
In 1926, V. I. Vernadsky similarly acknowledged the increasing impact of mankind on “[t]he direction in which the processes of evolution must proceed, namely towards increasing consciousness and thought, and forms having greater and greater influence on their surroundings.”