Close contacts of distant ancestors. Yun S., Lee S.

The book proposed to the reader turns to a wide range of problems of biological anthropology. Among them: the reproductive strategy of fossil hominins and primates as a whole, the emergence of conscious paternity; uprising among fossil ancestors; the evolution of the size of the brain; nutrition (meat -eating and overcoming lactase failure in adults); an increase in the duration of human life in the process of evolution; the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and its demographic consequences; Altruism and much more. Themes are presented in the form of fascinating popular stories that can be read in any order, so this work, the basis of which was the lectures and articles of the American researcher Sanha Lee, can successfully serve as the first stage of acquaintance with the issues of biological anthropology.