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The evolutionary ontology differs from the traditional one by: 1) the subject; 2) the way of its interpretation; and 3) the social role. The subject of the traditional ontology was the abstract understanding of existence. The subject of the evolutionary ontology is the natural existence, the ontically opposite cultural existence, and the ontic conflict of the former with nature. In the treatment of the natural existence the traditional ontology preferred stability, passivity and reversibility; on the other hand, the evolutionary ontology emphasizes its process-like character, its ontic activity and irreversibility. 3) The traditional ontology was abstractly academic and individually consoling. The evolutionary ontology, which reveals the essence of the global ecological crisis, can carry out the general word-outlook and the cultural-paradigmatic functions.