The Missing link. (In Two Volumes). Book II. Humans.

Who was the immediate ancestor of man? How does the chain, at the end of which there is Homo Sapiens, look like and are all its links in their place? Why do some fossil findings prove to be not what they seemed at first? Why was it hominids, and not other mammals, who became rational?
Stanislav Drobyshevsky, leading Russian anthropologist, in his two-volume-book The Missing Link answers these and many other burning questions about our past in an interesting and very detailed way. Stanislav Drobyshevsky is a leading Russian specialist on anthropogenesis, a well-known science populariser, author of books and scientific publications on the origin of man, scientific editor of the portal antropogenez.ru. His new book is not only an interesting story about the origin of Homos Sapiens, but also an exhausting analysis of modern anthropological theories and witty and scientific criticism of many of these theories, as well as a description of numerous fossil findings found in various places on Earth and much more. The reader will learn, why humans became rational, who was and who was not an ancestor of man, what did the Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus georgicus, and “hobbits” from the islands of Flores look like, and eventually come to the conclusion that we still do not have the definite answer to the question about the origin of man.

Moscow: Corpus, 2017