Renowned Anthropologist Gives Lecture at University

12:04, February 10, 2022

Stanislav Drobyshevsky will speak about the evolution of man and race in the Urals

Stanislav Drobyshevsky, associate professor of the Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, scientific editor of the portal Antropogenez.ru, expert of the international public movement Community of Young Scientists will give a lecture at Ural Federal University. The scientist will talk about the evolution of man and race in the Urals.

"The ancestral line stretches from the origin of the planet and the birth of life. However, the finishing line runs from the moment one ancestor climbed down from a tree and stood on two legs. The Sahelanthropes, the Orrorinians, the Ardipithecines, and as yet unknown creatures explored the earth. The succession of advances - orthograde, labor, tools, fire, dwellings, burials, rituals - stretches from ape-like creatures through humanoid ones to fully human. Modern anthropology has much to tell, but much more to discover. Along with our direct ancestors, there were cousins and triple cousins - the Naled, the Ngandong, the Hobbits, the Denisovites, the Neanderthals. Some of them went in very strange ways, some were like us. Our species is the only one that survived the struggle of humanity. Was this an accident or a pattern? The answer to this and other questions is in the lecture," says Stanislav Drobyshevsky.

The event will be supported by the Stanislav Drobyshevsky Projects, a public movement for the popularization of science.

The lecture is one of the events of the Days of Science in Ural Federal University. It will take place on February 11 at 19 Mira Street, T-216. Entrance is free, registration is required.

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