The Main Forks of Our Evolution. The Adventures of Our Ancestors Lasting 66 Million Years

What paths did evolution take from the ancient creature resembling a tree shrew to humans? The new book by the famous anthropologist Stanislav Drobyshevsky is almost a guide to the roads and forks of evolutionary adventures. In it, you will read about why agile galagos and poisonous lorises chose their strange paths, while clumsy paranthropes faced an evolutionary dead end. The author demonstrates how chance, climate, and competition transformed consular monkeys into our distant ancestors and macaques into the masters of the savanna. Why did gibbons become perfect acrobats, while Neanderthals, despite their strength, made way for us, Homo sapiens? Before you is an interesting and witty account of how we became who we are. Looking into the past, the author invites us to ponder: what awaits us in the future when evolution meets technology? Without pedantry, but with scientific depth