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Alexander Sokolov. Myths about human evolution.

Did Charles Darwin renounce his theory of human evolution at the end of his life? Did ancient people find dinosaurs? Is it true that Russia is the cradle of humanity, and who is the yeti - perhaps one of our ancestors, lost through the centuries? Although paleoanthropology - the science of human evolution - is booming, the origins of man are still surrounded by many myths. These are anti-evolutionist theories, and legends generated by mass culture, and pseudo-scientific ideas that exist among educated and well-read people. Do you want to know how everything “really” was? Alexander Sokolov, editor-in-chief of the portal ANTHROPOGENES.RU, collected a whole collection of similar myths and checked how valid they are.

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Of course, I understand that “Orthodox Biology” is more useful in the sense of bonding. Or is it Sharia?

Panzer 10/10/2017

Natalya Vasilyeva 11/17/2015

It’s well written, but I didn’t discover anything new for myself. The author is not a biologist, but a mathematician, which does not add respect to the book. A non-specialist can only broadcast someone else's information. I agree with the author of the previous review.

The fact that the book was shortlisted for the Enlightener award speaks of the undemanding nature of the jury and the level of this award. Not the first example, by the way. Before that, there was Obraztsov’s completely delusional book, which they also managed to sneak into the shortlist. It’s good that at least she didn’t become the winner.

pale 11/16/2015

Evolutionary-anti-evolutionary phrasebook

In fact, when someone shouts out with unshakable confidence something like: “only a few scattered bones have been found in the remains of primitive people,” you sometimes fall into a slight stupor. This is such a blatant lie that it even seems inconvenient to refute it. ...

In fact, when someone shouts out with unshakable confidence something like: “a few scattered bones have been found in the remains of primitive people,” you sometimes fall into a slight stupor. This is such a blatant lie that it even seems inconvenient to refute it. And if we refute it, then not so unfoundedly. However... I won’t be able to name exact numbers and specific sources right now - I’m not an anthropologist by profession and I didn’t memorize this in anticipation of butting heads with such “screamers”!
For such cases, Alexander Sokolov’s book is absolutely irreplaceable. Although I read about a good half of the “myths” for the first time in it (which suggests that they are not that common). In general, the reader who has an idea of ​​human evolution will find very little new for himself in “Myths...”.

Did Charles Darwin renounce his theory of human evolution at the end of his life? Did ancient people find dinosaurs? Is it true that Russia is the cradle of humanity, and who is the yeti - perhaps one of our ancestors, lost through the centuries? Although paleoanthropology - the science of human evolution - is booming, the origins of man are still surrounded by many myths. These are anti-evolutionist theories, and legends generated by mass culture, and pseudo-scientific ideas that exist among educated and well-read people. Do you want to know how everything “really” was? Alexander Sokolov, editor-in-chief of the portal ANTHROPOGENES.RU, collected a whole collection of similar myths and checked how valid they are.

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Alpina Non-fiction, 2015

Did Charles Darwin renounce his theory at the end of his life? Did ancient people find dinosaurs? Is it true that Russia is the cradle of humanity, and who is the yeti - perhaps one of our ancestors, lost through the centuries? Although paleoanthropology - the science of human evolution - is booming, the origins of man are still surrounded by many myths. These are anti-evolutionist theories, and legends generated by mass culture, and pseudo-scientific ideas that exist among educated and well-read people. Do you want to know how everything “really” was? Alexander Sokolov, editor-in-chief of the portal ANTHROPOGENES.RU, collected a whole collection of similar myths and checked how valid they are.

Myths about fossil bones

1. Anthropologists have found very few (extremely fragmentary) fossil finds on the basis of which Darwinists base their speculations

2. Most of the fossil evidence for human evolution is fake...

3. This or that fossil human ancestor is described from one single dubious find.

4. Found fossils passed off as human ancestors are “just ancient monkeys” or “just ancient people”

5. Found fossils passed off as human ancestors are actually “degradants”, degraded people.

6. Missing link not found...

7. If evolution is real, there must be millions of skeletons of human ancestors

Myths about chronology

8. The dating of ancient bones - “all these millions of years” - was obtained by dubious methods (“out of the blue”), using a number of unverifiable assumptions.

9. The ancient “ancestors of man” lived simultaneously, and did not descend one from the other.

10. People lived at the same time as dinosaurs!

11. According to “official scientists”, for millions of years people have been using the same primitive split stones. And suddenly, in a few thousand years, a person goes from a hoe to a space rocket and a computer. But this is absurd!

12. This or that type of ancient people existed for a long time without changing

Myths about scientists

13. Charles Darwin's main idea is that “man descended from the ape.”

14. Charles Darwin never claimed that “man descended from apes”!

15. Darwin's main idea is that there is no God...

16. Charles Darwin “renounced his theory” at the end of his life.

17. At the end of his life, Eugene Dubois admitted that he found not a Pithecanthropus in Java, but a “giant gibbon.”

18. Most scientists around the world “long ago refuted the theory of the origin of man from the ape...”.

Myths about the participants in the “March of Progress”

19. Australopithecines are ordinary monkeys

20. Homo habilis is just a monkey, Australopithecus

21. Homo erectus ( Homo erectus, Pithecanthropus) is an ordinary person, such people can be found on the street

22. Sinanthropus are just monkeys that were eaten by people...

23. Man came from a monkey, and from whom did the monkey come? From a frog? From bacteria?

24. Modern man arose out of nowhere, his ancestors are unknown. There is “too big a gap” between it and fossil hominids.

Myths about Neanderthals

25. The brain of Neanderthals was larger than the brain of Cro-Magnons!

26. Cro-Magnons exterminated the Neanderthals, simply ate them

27. Neanderthals had very big eyes

28. Bigfoot is a Neanderthal who is still hiding somewhere in the forests...

Myths about reconstructions

29. Reconstructions of the appearance of human ancestors are based solely on the “sick imagination of scientists.”

30. Are you saying that this is a reconstruction of our distant ancestor? Yes, my neighbor looks like him!

31. From a pile of scattered bones you can assemble anything, even a person, even a monkey, even a “man-ape”...

Myths about the scientific method

32. The theory about the origin of man from the monkey is based only “on the external similarity of man and monkey.”

33. They show some broken stones and say that these are tools. I do not believe! I can find as many of these in the ditch as I like...

34. How can you explore the distant past? Did anyone live a million years ago and see what happened?

35. If evolution really happened, we would see it all the time!

36. Man is the crown of nature, he is perfect! This means that it could not have arisen as a result of blind evolution

37. Man did not come from the monkey; Man and ape had a common ancestor!!

Myths about the homeland and elephants

38. Man did not originate in Africa! The African hypothesis was imposed on us by politically correct scientists so that we do not love our homeland!

39. Why would a person settle to the north? It's warm in the south!

40. Very ancient monuments were found on the territory of Russia! These are Russians! Not the British! Russia is the cradle of humanity, and the most ancient people were Russian!

Myths about races

41. People descended from blacks

42. In ancient times, in the Upper Paleolithic, Negroids lived in Europe, who were later replaced by Cro-Magnons-Caucasians

43. People descended from the Bushmen, and modern Bushmen are “the most ancient people on the planet”

44. Marriages between “distant” races do not produce offspring! Therefore, races are different species!

45. Blacks (or Australians, Tasmanians, Papuans, ... etc.) are primitive peoples who are closer to the monkey than we, proud Europeans (or Mongoloids)

46. ​​Modern aborigines of Australia are descendants of Pithecanthropus, or at least hybrids of sapiens with Pithecanthropus.

Myths about the stupid and ignorant monkey

47. We could not have descended from a monkey, because there is no need for a monkey to walk on two legs! She's happy in the tree anyway!

48. Humans have 46 chromosomes, and monkeys have 48! How could a man turn out from a monkey?

49. A pig is genetically much closer to humans than a monkey (it’s not for nothing that humans are transplanted pig organs...)

50. If a mutant is born to monkeys, they will immediately kill him...

Myths about the caveman...

51. Ancient people walked wrapped in skins and with a club in their hand

52. All ancient people lived in caves

53. Ancient people lived in northern latitudes, in glacial cold, on the border with a glacier

54. Ancient people were very hairy

55. The ancient people had arms up to their knees, had crooked short legs, and walked hunched over

56. Ancient people were very aggressive and constantly fought with each other

57. In ancient times, men got women mainly by force

58. Ancient people lived in the era of matriarchy

59. In ancient times, people often became victims of predators

Myths about the lost paradise and ancestors hidden by official science

60. In ancient times, people were huge, giants...

61. Man descended from aquatic (semi-aquatic) ancestors! Only this can explain the amazing features of man...

62. In ancient times, people lived in harmony with nature, were healthy and strong, and then man ruined everything, made it dirty, he became sick and weak...

Culinary myths

63. Ancient people were vegetarians

64. Ancient people were scavengers

65. Ancient people were cannibals

The final myth (instead of an afterword). If man descended from a monkey, then everything is permissible!

Publishing house Alpina Nonfiction, 390 pp.

Myths about human evolution Alexander Sokolov

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Title: Myths about human evolution

About the book “Myths about Human Evolution” Alexander Sokolov

Scientific journalist Alexander Sokolov collected sixty-five common pseudoscientific legends under one cover of the book “Myths about Human Evolution” and skillfully exposed their fallacy.

It’s the twenty-first century, the era of the iPhone and Tesla, and adherents of the denial of Darwin’s theory continue their work to refute scientific postulates. Alexander Sokolov convincingly dismantles into atoms every myth about the origin of man, the forms of his development - Australopithecus, Pithecanthropus, Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, living conditions and nutrition of ancient people, etc. The author skillfully ridicules pseudo-theories about giants, people born of the sea, dinosaur hunters, and so on.

The book “Myths about Human Evolution” is entertaining to read, although there is little new in it for people interested in science. For others, the book will open their eyes to fresh scientific facts, talk about methods for studying ancient fossil bones, and build a whole chain of evolutionary changes.

Alexander Sokolov refutes the myth that human development has reached its peak and is no longer evolving. The dramatic facts of change over the past centuries will provide the clearest picture of how evolution continues.

Typically, dry scientific facts published in treatises by paleontologists, biologists, and anthropologists are difficult to understand, and specific terms are poorly understood by the general public. But this is not the case with the book “Myths about Human Evolution,” written in the form of a dialogue in clear and simple language.

For hundreds of years, myths about the origin of man have been put into people's heads - by the church, by opponents of the theory of the origin of species. Anti-scientific circles cling to outright fakes just to prove they are right. Alexander Sokolov trashes the harmonious theories of his opponents, based on baseless speculation.

“Myths of Human Evolution” claims to be a reference book for arguing with zealous advocates of erroneous opinions about the origin and development of mankind. Recommended for reading to a wide audience of readers.

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Quotes from the book “Myths about Human Evolution” Alexander Sokolov

Formulas for estimating brain volume even from the size of the femur...)
Now computed tomography works wonders: the skull is scanned with high resolution, a three-dimensional model is obtained and the brain is measured virtually. This is how the brain size of Australopithecus sediba was determined. To do this, it was not even necessary to clear the skull of rock - it was shoved into a powerful tomograph along with a piece of rock.